Hello, I am a postdoc in John Wallingford's John Wallingford lab at UT Austin.

After 20 years focused on PCP & actomyosin in convergent extension, I'm thrilled for our new thrust to understand cell adhesion in this process. Two great papers from a massive co-lab between two fantastic postdocs, Robert J. Huebner and Shinuo Weng are up now on bioRxiv.

This work led Robert J. Huebner to re-explore the poorly defined catenin, Arvcf. Remarkably, he and Shinuo Weng found that Arvcf is not required for cell intercalation per se, but is required for robust force generation by the converging/extending tissue: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are very excited to share our preprint: Mechanics of cell integration in vivo ⚙️🐸🔬🧮. Wonderful collaboration with @DoostmohammadiL and Aboutaleb Amiri 🧮. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…, So, how do cells navigate through complex 3D environments? 🧵1/14⬇️

HUGE day for Robert J. Huebner and Shinuo Weng and the whole Wallingford lab as their companion papers drop today in Developmental Cell and Cell Reports! I'll tweet out separate threads for each in a bit, but for now, I'll just let two awesome papers speak for themselves.

Featured article: Hueber and Weng et al., Developmental Cell, ARVCF catenin controls force production during vertebrate convergent extension. xenbase.org/entry/doNewsRe…

...and we're on COVER Developmental Cell! So stoked for Robert J. Huebner and Shinuo Weng for their great work on this paper. cell.com/developmental-…

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒑𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒓𝒕 We wondered how variations in cell-cell contact due to changes in intercellular adhesion strength impact cell growth and division in expanding dense 3D cell collectives - cell.com/biophysj/fullt… Cell Press Pressure on cells is visualized [1/5]

#sciencetwitter are you interested in how cell clusters transit from non-to-migratory states in #embryos? Check out to our article in Nature Materials Jaime Espina Hidalgo. Abdul Naseer Malmi-Kakkada Cristian Marchant #devbio #CellMigration #CellBio #mechanobiology #AFM nature.com/articles/s4156…

I can't wait to start CU DevBio CU Anschutz Medical Campus 😍 feeling incredibly honored to join this amazing group of people and start my lab at the same time as Jen McKey!!!

Stoked for the newest paper from Robert J. Huebner just out @MBoCjournal, where he's drilled deeper into his finding of PCP control of cadherin clustering! molbiolcell.org/doi/10.1091/mb…