William Salvidge, Chris Brimson ... Chris Thompson
Experiments and mathematical modelling show cell fate in Dictyostelium discoideum partly depends on cell-cycle phase, but also on stochastic gene-expression variability which enhances robustness of developmental responses to cell-cycle perturbation.
Drosophila female germline tumors mutant for bam or bgcn mimic the stem cell niche to inhibit the differentiation of neighboring wild-type germline stem cells.
The Drosophila ryanodine receptor plays a conserved role in setting functional and structural muscle properties, regulates embryonic muscle development and could be used to assess the impact of human RYR1 mutations.