Leslie Pick

Axons guided by insulin receptor in Drosophila visual system.

Cofactor-interaction motifs and the cooption of a homeotic Hox protein into the segmentation pathway of Drosophila melanogaster.

Transgenic Drosophila models of Noonan syndrome causing PTPN11 gain-of-function mutations.

Computational identification of Ftz/Ftz-F1 downstream target genes.

Isolation of regulators of Drosophila immune defense genes by a double interaction screen in yeast.

Stripy Ftz target genes are coordinately regulated by Ftz-F1.

Deletion of Drosophila insulin-like peptides causes growth defects and metabolic abnormalities.

The POU transcription factor Drifter/Ventral veinless regulates expression of Drosophila immune defense genes.

Surprising flexibility in a conserved Hox transcription factor over 550 million years of evolution.

Rapid isolation of gene homologs across taxa: Efficient identification and isolation of gene orthologs from non-model organism genomes, a technical report.

ftz evolution: findings, hypotheses and speculations (response to DOI 10.1002/bies.201100019).

Hox gene evolution: multiple mechanisms contributing to evolutionary novelties.

Conservation and variation in Hox genes: how insect models pioneered the evo-devo field.

Functional conservation of Drosophila FTZ-F1 and its mammalian homologs suggests ligand-independent regulation of NR5A family transcriptional activity.

Variation and constraint in Hox gene evolution.

Insulin stimulates translocation of human GLUT4 to the membrane in fat bodies of transgenic Drosophila melanogaster.

The evolving role of the orphan nuclear receptor ftz-f1, a pair-rule segmentation gene.

Independent signaling by Drosophila insulin receptor for axon guidance and growth.

Rapid transcriptome sequencing of an invasive pest, the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys.

Dermestes maculatus: an intermediate-germ beetle model system for evo-devo.

Hox genes, evo-devo, and the case of the ftz gene.

Evo-Devo: Discovery of Diverse Mechanisms Regulating Development.

Editorial Overview: Development, regulation and evolution of organ systems.

Activation of Ftz-F1-Responsive Genes through Ftz/Ftz-F1 Dependent Enhancers.