Veronica F. Hinman

The paper identifies a regeneration-induced blastema cell state in sea star larvae and shows how wound signals drive distinct gene regulatory networks for regeneration.

The paper studies regulatory genome evolution in echinoderms, revealing deep conservation of cis-regulatory elements and chromatin organization, suggesting an ancestral regulatory pattern in animal genomes.

This paper introduces a chemically inducible gene editing system in the sea star Patiria miniata using Tet-ON and CRISPR, enabling inducible gene alteration in transgenic cell populations for the first time in echinoderm biology.

This study shows that sea star larval nervous system regeneration involves sox2 lineage respecification and partial reuse of developmental gene regulatory networks.

The paper compares developmental GRNs to show how novelty is incorporated while maintaining network stability during early development.

The paper analyzes sea star larval regeneration to identify conserved molecular processes of whole-body regeneration across metazoans.