Katerina Ragkousi

This study identifies NCAM2 as essential for epithelial and germ layer organization in sea anemone embryos through proteomics and knockdown experiments.

This study shows that lateral cell polarization, mediated by Lgl, is essential for epithelial organization in sea anemone embryos and aggregates.

The paper reports chromosome-level genome assemblies of two sea anemones and finds conserved chromosomal blocks across cnidarians and bilaterians, but loss of microsynteny in Hox and NK clusters.