Christine M. Field

Local fluidization of an active cytoplasmic gel partitions large cells

The paper shows that cytoplasm in early embryos behaves as a locally switchable active material, enabling long-range transport of components during cleavage.

Episodic Transport of Protein Aggregates Achieves a Positive Size Selectivity in Aggresome Formation

The paper investigates aggresome formation by reconstituting aggregate transport in Xenopus egg extract, finding that episodic dynein-mediated transport enables positive size selectivity.

Depletion of a neural cell adhesion molecule disrupts both epithelial and germ layer identity in sea anemone embryos

This study identifies NCAM2 as essential for epithelial and germ layer organization in sea anemone embryos through proteomics and knockdown experiments.

Wnt11 family dependent morphogenesis during frog gastrulation is marked by the cleavage furrow protein anillin

The paper investigates the role of Wnt11 family proteins in frog gastrulation, showing that their loss disrupts blastopore closure and endoderm internalization through effects on cell contractility and morphology.