Lale Alpar

The paper shows that tissue mechanics, not gene patterning, determine the scaling of collective cell migration velocity with tissue size during development.

The paper introduces a framework to integrate spatial transcriptomics with live morphometrics to infer gene regulatory networks and validate gene function in Drosophila thorax development.

This study identifies long Toll receptors as mediators of interface surveillance in Drosophila wing imaginal discs, detecting cell fate aberrations through expression level differences between neighboring cells.

This study shows Toll-2 controls homeotic compartment formation and timing of neck morphogenesis in Drosophila by regulating apoptosis and cell rearrangements through PI3K and Src signaling.

The paper shows how curvature and tension in Drosophila homeotic compartments drive spatiotemporal folding during development.