I am a senior postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Pavel Tomancak’s lab at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany. I am a developmental biologist/geneticist and study mechanisms that underlie collective cell migration in rotating organ-like egg chambers during Drosophila oogenesis. In general, I aim to understand the basic principles behind tissue movement and what defines tissue/organ shape in animal bodies. I am interested in planar cell polarity, actomyosin networks and tissue tension.
Regeneration in the adult Drosophila brain
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |
Distinct RhoGEFs activate apical and junctional actomyosin contractility under control of G proteins during epithelial morphogenesis
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |
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Microtubules stabilize intercellular contractile force transmission during tissue folding
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |
Actomyosin-II facilitates long-range retrograde transport of large cargoes by controlling axonal radial contractility
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |
Actomyosin-driven tension at compartmental boundaries orients cell division independently of cell geometry in vivo
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |
Mechanosensitive binding of p120-Catenin at cell junctions regulates E-Cadherin turnover and epithelial viscoelasticity
Selected by | Ivana Viktorinová |