Alexander F. Schier

Stat3 Controls Cell Movements during Zebrafish Gastrulation.

A loss-of-function mutation in the CFC domain of TDGF1 is associated with human forebrain defects.

A novel microtubule destabilizing entity from orthogonal synthesis of triazine library and zebrafish embryo screening.

Mesoderm induction and patterning.

Production of maternal-zygotic mutant zebrafish by germ-line replacement.

Lefty proteins are long-range inhibitors of squint-mediated nodal signaling.

EGF-CFC proteins are essential coreceptors for the TGF-beta signals Vg1 and GDF1.

Chemokine signaling: rules of attraction.

Genetic analysis of zebrafish gli1 and gli2 reveals divergent requirements for gli genes in vertebrate development.

The role of the zebrafish nodal-related genes squint and cyclops in patterning of mesendoderm.

Mixer/Bon and FoxH1/Sur have overlapping and divergent roles in Nodal signaling and mesendoderm induction.

Nodal signaling in vertebrate development.

Developmental biology: tail of decay.

Lefty blocks a subset of TGFbeta signals by antagonizing EGF-CFC coreceptors.

Zebrafish Gli3 functions as both an activator and a repressor in Hedgehog signaling.

Nodal stability determines signaling range.

MicroRNAs regulate brain morphogenesis in zebrafish.

Cilia-driven fluid flow in the zebrafish pronephros, brain and Kupffer's vesicle is required for normal organogenesis.

Repulsive interactions shape the morphologies and functional arrangement of zebrafish peripheral sensory arbors.

Assembly of trigeminal sensory ganglia by chemokine signaling.

Molecular genetics of axis formation in zebrafish.

Axis formation: squint comes into focus.

Planar cell polarity signalling couples cell division and morphogenesis during neurulation.

Zebrafish MiR-430 promotes deadenylation and clearance of maternal mRNAs.

Polycystin-2 immunolocalization and function in zebrafish.

Differential regulation of germline mRNAs in soma and germ cells by zebrafish miR-430.

Hypocretin/orexin overexpression induces an insomnia-like phenotype in zebrafish.

Nodal signaling activates differentiation genes during zebrafish gastrulation.

The maternal-zygotic transition: death and birth of RNAs.

Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430.

Maternal nodal and zebrafish embryogenesis.

Members of the miRNA-200 family regulate olfactory neurogenesis.

Clearing the path for germ cells.

Targeted mutagenesis in zebrafish.

Escape behavior elicited by single, channelrhodopsin-2-evoked spikes in zebrafish somatosensory neurons.

In vivo birthdating by BAPTISM reveals that trigeminal sensory neuron diversity depends on early neurogenesis.

Zebrafish TRPA1 channels are required for chemosensation but not for thermosensation or mechanosensory hair cell function.

Nodal signaling promotes the speed and directional movement of cardiomyocytes in zebrafish.

Dampened Hedgehog signaling but normal Wnt signaling in zebrafish without cilia.

Developmental biology: Rise of the source-sink model.

Nodal morphogens.

Zebrafish behavioral profiling links drugs to biological targets and rest/wake regulation.

no tail integrates two modes of mesoderm induction.

Monitoring neural activity with bioluminescence during natural behavior.

Chromatin signature of embryonic pluripotency is established during genome activation.

Monitoring sleep and arousal in zebrafish.

Multicolor Brainbow imaging in zebrafish.

Non-coding RNAs as regulators of embryogenesis.

Behavioral screening for neuroactive drugs in zebrafish.

Extracellular movement of signaling molecules.

Morphogen gradients: from generation to interpretation.

Systematic identification of long noncoding RNAs expressed during zebrafish embryogenesis.

Robo2 determines subtype-specific axonal projections of trigeminal sensory neurons.

BAPTI and BAPTISM birthdating of neurons in zebrafish.

Nanog-like regulates endoderm formation through the Mxtx2-Nodal pathway.

The role of hair cells, cilia and ciliary motility in otolith formation in the zebrafish otic vesicle.

Touch responsiveness in zebrafish requires voltage-gated calcium channel 2.1b.

Differential diffusivity of Nodal and Lefty underlies a reaction-diffusion patterning system.

Bivalent histone modifications in early embryogenesis.

CCDC103 mutations cause primary ciliary dyskinesia by disrupting assembly of ciliary dynein arms.

Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish.

Attenuation of Notch and Hedgehog signaling is required for fate specification in the spinal cord.

The tangential nucleus controls a gravito-inertial vestibulo-ocular reflex.

A large-scale zebrafish gene knockout resource for the genome-wide study of gene function.

Optical control of metabotropic glutamate receptors.

Morphogen transport.

Genomics: Zebrafish earns its stripes.

Specified neural progenitors sort to form sharp domains after noisy Shh signaling.

Ribosome profiling reveals resemblance between long non-coding RNAs and 5' leaders of coding RNAs.

Sites of action of sleep and wake drugs: insights from model organisms.

Zebrabow: multispectral cell labeling for cell tracing and lineage analysis in zebrafish.

Should I stay or should I go: neuromodulators of behavioral states.

Canonical nucleosome organization at promoters forms during genome activation.

Toddler: an embryonic signal that promotes cell movement via Apelin receptors.

Neuropeptidergic signaling partitions arousal behaviors in zebrafish.

Efficient mutagenesis by Cas9 protein-mediated oligonucleotide insertion and large-scale assessment of single-guide RNAs.

Neuropeptidergic control of sleep and wakefulness.

Obituary: Walter J. Gehring (1939-2014).

Identifying (non-)coding RNAs and small peptides: Challenges and opportunities.

High-resolution sequencing and modeling identifies distinct dynamic RNA regulatory strategies.

The study of psychiatric disease genes and drugs in zebrafish.