Masakatsu Watanabe

The paper identifies a gene involved in pigment cell communication that governs color pattern formation in zebrafish and anemonefish.

This study shows that Cx41.8 regulates the timing of mitochondrial ROS production, which stabilizes the Hif pathway to enable proper haemogenic endothelium specification and HSPC induction in zebrafish.

The paper shows hyperpolarizing neurons in C. elegans use undocked innexin hemichannels to transmit temperature information independently of synaptic vesicle exocytosis.

This study uses piezo1 mutant zebrafish to model human idiopathic scoliosis, showing that Piezo1 function is critical for bone formation and spinal integrity.