Ben T. Larson

This study shows that the choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa forms multicellular sheets through clonal or aggregative mechanisms, adapting to environmental changes in splash pools.

The paper describes the regulated development of cannibalistic supergiant cells in a ciliate, showing they are distinct, transcriptionally unique stages triggered by internal and external factors.

This paper describes the cell biology and genome of Stentor pyriformis, a mixotrophic ciliate, revealing unique features of its endosymbiotic relationship with Chlorella variabilis.

The paper shows that hydraulic instability in C. elegans germ cells leads to cell death by causing volume differences and extrusion of shrinking cells.