Sally A. Moody

Cloning and characterization of the 5'-flanking region of the rat neuron-specific Class III beta-tubulin gene.

Multiple maternal influences on dorsal-ventral fate of Xenopus animal blastomeres.

Dual phosphorylation controls Cdc25 phosphatases and mitotic entry.

Phosphorylation of Xenopus Cdc25C at Ser285 interferes with ability to activate a DNA damage replication checkpoint in pre-midblastula embryos.

Neural induction, neural fate stabilization, and neural stem cells.

Morphogenesis during Xenopus gastrulation requires Wee1-mediated inhibition of cell proliferation.

Morphogenetic movements underlying eye field formation require interactions between the FGF and ephrinB1 signaling pathways.

To differentiate or not to differentiate: regulation of cell fate decisions by being in the right place at the right time.

Regulation of primary spinal neuron lineages after deletion of a major progenitor.

Xenopus flotillin1, a novel gene highly expressed in the dorsal nervous system.

Six1 promotes a placodal fate within the lateral neurogenic ectoderm by functioning as both a transcriptional activator and repressor.

Stem cells: cell and developmental biology in regenerative medicine.

Induction and specification of the vertebrate ectodermal placodes: precursors of the cranial sensory organs.

Step-wise specification of retinal stem cells during normal embryogenesis.

Dishevelled mediates ephrinB1 signalling in the eye field through the planar cell polarity pathway.

Noggin signaling from Xenopus animal blastomere lineages promotes a neural fate in neighboring vegetal blastomere lineages.

Changes in Rx1 and Pax6 activity at eye field stages differentially alter the production of amacrine neurotransmitter subtypes in Xenopus.

The competence of Xenopus blastomeres to produce neural and retinal progeny is repressed by two endo-mesoderm promoting pathways.

Alterations of rx1 and pax6 expression levels at neural plate stages differentially affect the production of retinal cell types and maintenance of retinal stem cell qualities.

Eya1 and Six1 promote neurogenesis in the cranial placodes in a SoxB1-dependent fashion.

foxD5 plays a critical upstream role in regulating neural ectodermal fate and the onset of neural differentiation.

Notch signaling downstream of foxD5 promotes neural ectodermal transcription factors that inhibit neural differentiation.

Neural induction and factors that stabilize a neural fate.

The genesis of new and exciting developmental genetics research.

Highlighted article: "E(nos)/CG4699 is required for nanos function in the female germ line of Drosophila" by Yu, Song and Wharton.

Microarray identification of novel downstream targets of FoxD4L1/D5, a critical component of the neural ectodermal transcriptional network.

Developmental expression patterns of candidate cofactors for vertebrate six family transcription factors.

Special issue on craniofacial development. Editorial.

Yes-associated protein 65 (YAP) expands neural progenitors and regulates Pax3 expression in the neural plate border zone.

Using 32-cell stage Xenopus embryos to probe PCP signaling.

Specific domains of FoxD4/5 activate and repress neural transcription factor genes to control the progression of immature neural ectoderm to differentiating neural plate.

Targeted microinjection of synthetic mRNAs to alter retina gene expression in Xenopus embryos.

Testing retina fate commitment in Xenopus by blastomere deletion, transplantation, and explant culture.