Candice Merle

The paper shows that mechanical sorting, driven by adhesion and contractility differences, maintains basal-luminal compartmentalization and influences lineage outcomes in glandular epithelia.

The paper uses genetic barcoding and single-cell transcriptomics to identify evolutionary trajectories in breast cancer cells, linking them to poor patient survival.

The paper identifies a conserved p63-Notch axis in multilayered epithelia and shows how context-specific modules generate functional diversity.

The paper identifies a transient population of contractile fibroblasts in the mouse mammary gland that support branching morphogenesis through recruitment from the fat pad.

The paper investigates Notch-induced lineage conversion in mammary basal cells using single-cell transcriptomics and shows that proliferation is essential for the transition to luminal progenitors.