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Research and Publications
Our research has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Volkswagenstiftung, the Thyssen-Stiftung, EMBO, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). We have participated in several collaborative research concortia, including DFG/SPP1782 “Epithelial junctions”, DFG/SPP1464 “Dynamics and function of actin nucleator complexes”, DFG/FOR1756 “Functional dynamics of cell contacts”, DFG/GRK2213 “Membrane plasticity”, VW/CIDBN Göttingen “Big Data/Deep learning techniques…”.
Selected recent publications
Häring M, Wolf F, Großhans J, Kong D. Morphogenesis: Unstable rods and how genetics tames them. Curr Biol. 33:R873-R875. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.007.
L Long, HS Beati, J Heras Chanes, F di Pietro, Y Bellaiche, HA Müller, J Großhans. Kinesin-1 patterns Par-1 and Rho signaling at the cortex of syncytial embryos of Drosophila. J Cell Biol (2023) doi: 10.1083/jcb.202206013
A Schmidt, J Großhans. Dynamics of cortical domains in early Drosophila development, J Cell Sci 131 (2018) jcs212795, doi:10.1242/jcs.212795
D Kong, F Wolf, J Großhans. Forces directing germ-band extension in Drosophila embryo (review). Mech Dev 144 (2017) 11–22, doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2016.12.001
AR. Choudhury, J. Großhans, D. Kong. Ion channels in epithelial dynamics and morphogenesis. Cells (2021), doi: 10.3390/cells10092280