Gohta Goshima

The paper uses RNAi to identify a kinesin-14 protein critical for chloroplast motility in the coenocytic green alga Bryopsis.

The paper measures cellular forces for nuclear centration in C. elegans embryos using centrifugation and microscopy, finding forces increase linearly with distance and friction is reduced in microtubule mutants.

This study identifies 15 new bypassable essential genes in fission yeast through extragenic suppressor screening, showing that essentiality can be bypassed in some genes.