Vanessa Barone

This paper reports protocols to rear the sea star Patiria miniata through sexual maturity in the lab, enabling stable transgenic and mutant lines.

This study investigates how Stentor coeruleus resists mechanical stress during transit through a microfluidic constriction, identifying cytoskeletal and cytoplasmic factors involved in wound resistance.

The paper investigates how cell density and proliferation affect 3D cell packing in a sea star embryo, showing that tissue compaction and cell divisions drive scutoid formation.

The paper adapts live imaging techniques to multiple echinoderm species to study morphogenesis and evolutionary differences in cell behavior.

The paper quantifies cell size asymmetries in sea star embryos and shows they are not necessary for dorsoventral axis formation.