Cornelis Jan Weijer

The paper generates synthetic tissue segmentation data using GANs and shows it improves segmentation performance while reducing annotation time.

The paper shows how tissue mechanics and cellular flows guide the formation of feather follicles through sequential topological transformations.

FuChi is a new Fucci-based system in chickens that accurately tracks cell cycle phases in vivo, improving upon existing models by distinguishing all phases and enabling detailed developmental studies.

The paper shows that Dictyostelium cells form swarms that behave like active droplets, leading to clump deposition and differentiation through a 'musical chairs' mechanism.

The paper quantifies cell flows during avian gastrulation using a Dynamic Morphoskeleton model and identifies the mechanistic roles of attractors and repellers in shaping the embryo.

This paper develops a mechanochemical model that explains vertebrate gastrulation morphologies by coupling actomyosin activity to tissue flow, showing how different patterns emerge from a uniform state.

The paper manipulates cell behaviours in chick embryos to generate different gastrulation modes, suggesting evolution of these processes is shaped by mesendoderm territory shape and signalling pathways.

The paper identifies Dynamic Morphoskeletons (DM) from cell velocity data to analyze tissue organization during development, revealing spatial attractors and repellers in chicken and fly embryos.

The paper measures junctional tension in chick embryo epiblast cells during primitive streak formation using non-destructive optical manipulation and finds higher tension in mesendoderm cells and in the direction of intercalation.