Amanda M. Powell

This study investigates how disrupting coordination between germ cell differentiation and meiosis in Drosophila affects meiotic chromosome dynamics using a hypomorphic mei-P26 mutation.

This study identifies Tnpo-SR as a regulator of fusome morphogenesis in Drosophila germline cysts, showing that its depletion disrupts fusome structure and cyst organization.

This study identifies Ran and β-importins as critical regulators of germ cell cyst formation in Drosophila, showing they influence cell cycle dynamics and cyst stability without requiring mitotic spindle assembly.