Morris Maduro

The paper shows that C. angaria uses ELT-3 instead of ELT-2 for gut specification, indicating an ancestral simpler gene network involving POP-1 → ELT-3 → ELT-2.

The paper identifies a feedforward regulatory logic in C. elegans endoderm development that ensures robustness and fidelity of cell fate specification and differentiation.

The paper identifies and analyzes orthologous genes in the SKN-1 -> MED -> END-1,3 gene cascade across Caenorhabditis species, revealing evolutionary dynamics and conserved regulatory features.