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Alyssa Emig, Megan Hansen, Sandra Grimm, Cristian Coarfa, Nathan D Lord, and Margot Kossmann Williams. Temporal dynamics of BMP/Nodal ratio drive tissue-specific gastrulation morphogenesis. Read it here.

development

2024


Xin Li, Robert J Huebner, Margot LK Williams, Jessica Sawyer, Mark Peifer, John B Wallingford, D Thirumalai. Emergence of cellular nematic order is a conserved feature of gastrulation in animal embryos. Read it here.

biorxiv

2024


biorxiv

2024

Alyssa Emig, Megan Hansen, Sandra Grimm, Cristian Coarfa, Nathan D Lord, and Margot Kossmann Williams. Temporal dynamics of BMP/Nodal ratio drive tissue-specific gastrulation morphogenesis. Read it here.


Biorxiv

2023

Jacalyn MacGowan, Mara Cardenas, and Margot Kossmann Williams. Fold-and-fuse neurulation in zebrafish requires Vangl2. Read it here.


biorxiv

2023

Agnese Kocere, Elena Chiavacci, Kevin M. Mendez-Acevedo, Charlotte Soneson, Max S. Hiltabidle, Jacalyn S. MacGowan, Daniela Panakova, Margot L. K. Williams, Mark D. Robinson, Christian Mosimann, Alexa Burger. TAR Syndrome-associated Rbm8a deficiency causes hematopoietic defects and attenuates Wnt/PCP signaling. Read it here.


Seminars in Cell & Developmental biology

2022

Alyssa A. Emig and Margot L.K. Williams. Gastrulation morphogenesis in synthetic systems. Read it here.


development

2022

Margot Kossmann Williams and Swathi Arur. In preprints: buckling under pressure during gastrulation. View in PubMed


JoVE

2021

Alyssa Alaniz Emig and Margot L.K.Williams. Generation of naive blastoderm explants from zebrafish embryos. View in PubMed


elife

2020

Margot L.K. Williams and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel. Nodal and Planar Cell Polarity signaling cooperate to regulate zebrafish convergence and extension gastrulation movements. View in Pubmed.


current topics in developmental biology

2020

Margot L.K. Williams and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of convergence and extension in zebrafish. View in Pubmed.


BIORXIV

2019

Margot L.K. Williams and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (2019). A mesoderm-independent role for Nodal signaling in convergence & extension gastrulation movements. bioRxiv (preprint) doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/671164


Nature Communications

2018

Margot L.K. Williams, Atsushi Sawada, Terin Budine, Chunyue Yin, Paul Gontarz, and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel. Gon4l regulates notochord boundary formation and cell polarity underlying axis extension by repressing adhesion genes. View in Pubmed.


Current opinion in cell biology

2017

Margot L.K. Williams and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel. Regulation of gastrulation movements by emergent cell and tissue interactions. View in Pubmed.


Developmental cell

2014

Margot Williams, Weiwei Yen, Xiaowei Lu, and Ann Sutherland. Distinct Apical and basolateral mechanisms drive planar cell polarity-dependent convergent extension of the mouse neural plate. View in Pubmed.


developmental dynamics

2012

Margot Williams, Carol Burdsal, Ammasi Periasamy, Mark Lewandoski, and Ann Sutherland. Mouse primitive streak forms in situ by initiation of epithelial to mesenchymal transition without migration of a cell population. View in Pubmed.


Weiwei Yen, Margot Williams, Ammasi Periasamy, Mark Conaway, Carol Burdsal, Raymond Keller, Xiaowei Lu, and Ann Sutherland. PTK7 is essential for polarized cell motility and convergent extension during mouse gastrulation. View in Pubmed.

development

2009