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Negar Balaghi

University of TorontoORCID 0000-0002-5204-3227Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Developmental Biology· 2 Bioinformatics· 1

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Assay:imaging· 3 Organism:Drosophila· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:dimensionality reduction· 1

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Rodrigo Fernández‐GonzáleziD· 3 shared Christopher M. J. McFaul· 1 shared Gonca Erdemci-TandoganiD· 1 shared Katheryn E. RothenbergiD· 1 shared Michelle LyiD· 1 shared Rafael Pérez‐VicenteiD· 1 shared Raymond Hawkins· 1 shared

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintApr 27, 2026

Quantitative image analysis reveals no sexual dimorphism in the cellular dynamics of Drosophila heart tube formation

Rafael Pérez‐Vicente, Negar Balaghi, Rodrigo Fernández‐González

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.23.720323

Drosophilaimaging

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintNov 28, 2024

ReSCU-Nets: recurrent U-Nets for segmentation of multidimensional microscopy data

Raymond Hawkins, Negar Balaghi, Katheryn E. Rothenberg…·Rodrigo Fernández‐González

ReSCU-Nets improve segmentation of multidimensional microscopy data by using previous frame results as prompts, outperforming existing models in time-lapse sequences.

DOI 10.1101/2024.11.28.625889

imagingdeep learning

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Developmental BiologyDevelopmental CellPeer-reviewedJun 8, 2023

Myosin waves and a mechanical asymmetry guide the oscillatory migration of Drosophila cardiac progenitors

Negar Balaghi, Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan, Christopher M. J. McFaul, Rodrigo Fernández‐González

This study identifies myosin waves and a mechanical asymmetry as key factors in the oscillatory migration of Drosophila cardiac progenitors.

15 citations

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