Andrea Pasini

Fast calcium-dependent reorientation of motile cilia basal bodies in the simple metazoan, Trichoplax.

This study shows that Trichoplax reorients its ciliary basal bodies rapidly in response to mechanical stimuli, requiring Ca2+ and revealing a new mechanism for directional motility in metazoans.

The SCF/KIT pathway implements self-organised epithelial patterning by cell movement

The paper shows how the SCF/KIT pathway enables self-organised epithelial patterning through cell movement and interactions in Xenopus embryos.