Josephine Bageritz

The paper identifies a spatial gradient of Wnt signaling that restricts Mef2 expression in Drosophila muscle progenitors, maintaining a less committed state and preserving the progenitor pool.

This study develops and benchmarks glyoxal as a fixative for scRNA-seq, showing it preserves transcriptomes in Drosophila and human cells with high correlation to unfixed samples.

The paper identifies two distinct stem cell lineages in Hydra, germline and somatic, and finds shared stemness genes with origins in unicellular eukaryotes.

The paper develops a new method for analyzing scRNA-seq data based on gene expression correlations to generate a gene expression atlas of the Drosophila wing disc, identifying 824 genes with spatially restricted expression patterns.