Anat Nitzan

The paper identifies Y16 phosphorylation as a conserved switch controlling Ena/VASP recruitment to actin assembly sites, using cell-based reconstitution and biochemical assays.

The paper shows that dysfunction in maternal scavenger cells disrupts systemic RNA homeostasis, leading to transgenerational germline tumors in C. elegans.

This study shows that TWF-2, a twinfilin ortholog in C. elegans, modulates actomyosin contractility in the spermatheca by regulating F-actin levels.

This paper develops a genetically encoded biosensor for dynamically monitoring PTEN activity in living cells and tissues with high spatial and temporal resolution.

The paper shows that transgenerational small RNA inheritance in C. elegans can occur independently of germ granules in some mutants, but depends on ancestral germ granule function and HRDE-1.