Vanessa Weichselberger

This paper develops a deep learning pipeline to quantify epithelial cell shape and tight junctions, applied to ADPKD models and Drosophila egg chambers to study morphogenetic changes.

This study identifies E-Cadherin spot junctions as critical for soma-germline coupling during late Drosophila oogenesis, showing their role in mechanical coupling and nurse cell enveloping.

The paper shows that Eya controls cell-cell affinity between germline and somatic cells in Drosophila oogenesis, driving tissue self-organization through differential forces.

The paper identifies a mutual repression network between JNK/AP-1 and JAK/STAT signaling that spatially segregates cell behaviors during tissue regeneration in Drosophila.

The paper investigates how tension at epithelial adherens junctions integrates external forces to coordinate cell shape transitions and organ growth in Drosophila.