Alwyn Dady

The paper shows glutaminase's non-canonical nuclear role in driving EMT during neural crest development by cooperating with Wnt signaling.

The paper develops fluorescent reporter tools in human pluripotent stem cells to study neural development through live imaging of cell behaviors.

This study shows that glucose oxidation drives neural crest cell migration and fate decisions by mobilizing multiple metabolic pathways.

The paper identifies and characterizes lateral protrusions in neuroepithelial cells, showing they form a latticework regulated by WAVE1 and are involved in neurogenesis.

This study shows that human spinal cord differentiation in vitro is faster than in vivo and stalls when grafted into a different species, highlighting the role of extrinsic signals.

The paper develops a protocol to generate human neuromesodermal and spinal cord progenitors in vitro, validates it with RNA-Seq, and identifies new pathways in neural differentiation.