Francesc Cebrià

This study identifies flavin-rich cells essential for neuronal repair in regenerating planarians, showing their role in spatially organizing vitamin B2 metabolism during tissue regeneration.

This study identifies Smed-pctk-1 as a regulator of eye and brain size in planarians through functional analyses and behavioral assays.

The paper integrates single cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility data to uncover the regulatory logic of planarian stem cell differentiation, validating predictions with TF knockdown experiments.

This study identifies and characterizes LIM-HD genes in planarians, showing their roles in brain patterning, neuron subtype regeneration, and intestinal cell identity during regeneration.

This study identifies and functionally characterizes five CBP genes in planarians, showing their roles in stem cell maintenance and differentiation.

The paper identifies hydrogen peroxide as an upstream signal initiating planarian regeneration by activating pERK and linking it to EGFR-MAPK/ERK pathway activation.

This study shows that Smed-egfr-4 is required for the final differentiation of eye cells in planarians, not their specification, and supports the idea that EGFR pathways regulate progenitor differentiation.