Yelena Y. Bernadskaya

The paper shows that transcriptome maturation during the cell cycle enables multilineage competence in cardiopharyngeal progenitors by coupling fate decisions with cell cycle phases.

This study shows that galvanotactic directionality of cell groups depends on group size and internal cell signaling, with small PI3K-inhibited groups moving to the anode and larger ones to the cathode.

The paper uses computational modeling and experiments to show that polarized supracellular organization in cardiopharyngeal progenitor cell pairs enhances their migratory persistence and mechanical interactions during morphogenesis.

The paper shows that the Discoidin domain receptor (Ddr) has dual roles in coordinating cell-matrix adhesion and BMP-Smad signaling in migratory cardiopharyngeal progenitors.