Nicholas J. Palmisano

The paper shows that somite morphogenesis, driven by retinoic acid, creates a midline cavity that allows angioblasts to migrate and form axial blood vessels.

The paper shows that BAF and PBAF SWI/SNF complexes differentially regulate cell cycle arrest and invasion in C. elegans anchor cells.

The paper introduces new tools for the auxin-inducible degron system in C. elegans, enabling conditional protein depletion through CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing.

The paper introduces a CDK sensor to distinguish cycling cells from terminally differentiated cells in C. elegans and zebrafish, revealing commitment points and stochasticity in cell cycle control.

The paper identifies a gene regulatory network in C. elegans anchor cell invasion, showing how transcription factors function differently before and after specification.