Stefan Harmansa

The paper shows how mechanical stress and basement membrane properties drive different epithelial cell shape transitions in Drosophila wing development.

This study shows how differential growth anisotropy in the extracellular matrix drives mechanical deformation and morphogenesis in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc.

The paper shows that Toll-8 and Cirl GPCRs form an asymmetric complex to polarize Myosin-II, driving planar cell intercalations during Drosophila embryonic axis extension.

This study shows that Myosin II is not required for tracheal branching in Drosophila, as tip cell migration drives elongation and intercalation independently of MyoII.

The paper introduces a nanobody-based toolset, GrabFP, to manipulate protein localization and dispersal in Drosophila cells and demonstrates its use in studying Dpp protein gradient formation.