Patricia Mendoza-García

The paper identifies Sparkly, a novel neuropeptide precursor gene regulated by Alk signaling in Drosophila CNS, through integration of TaDa and scRNA-seq data.

This paper develops two prime editing strategies using DSB repair to improve genomic insertion efficiency and purity, expanding the prime editing toolkit.

The paper identifies Kahuli as an Alk target in Drosophila visceral mesoderm using DamID profiling and shows its role in midgut constriction.

The paper demonstrates that ALKALs activate ALK/LTK family receptors and are involved in neural crest development using zebrafish and Drosophila models.