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Pani AM, Favichia M, Goldstein B.
Long-distance Wnt transport in axons highlights cell type-specific modes of Wnt transport in vivo
. bioRxiv
2023.05.03.539245
doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.03.539245
Zhang P*, Medwig-Kinney TN*, Goldstein B.
Architecture of the cortical actomyosin network driving apical constriction in
C. elegans
. Submitted & preprinted.
Published articles and reviews:
Slabodnick MM*, Tintori SC*, Prakash M, Zhang P, Higgins CD, Chen AH, et al. (2023)
Zyxin contributes to coupling between cell junctions and contractile actomyosin networks during apical constriction
.
PLoS Genetics
19(3): e1010319. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010319
Heikes KL, Game M, Smith FW, Goldstein B (2023).
The Embryonic Origin of Primordial Germ Cells in the Tardigrade
Hypsibius exemplaris
.
Developmental Biology
497:42-58.
Hibshman JD, Carra S, Goldstein B (2023).
Tardigrade small heat shock proteins can limit desiccation-induced protein aggregation.
Communications Biology
, 6:121 doi:
10
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1038
/
s42003
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023
-
04512
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y.
Serre JM, Slabodnick MM, Goldstein B, Hardin J (2023).
SRGP-1/srGAP and AFD-1/afadin stabilize HMP-1/alpha-catenin at rosettes to seal internalization sites following gastrulation in
C. elegans
.
PLoS Genetics
19(3):e1010507 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010507
Costa DS, Kenny-Ganzert IW, Chi Q, Park K, Kelley LC, Garde A, Matus DQ, Park J, Yogev S, Goldstein B, Gibney TV, Pani AM, Sherwood DR (2023).
The C. elegans Anchor Cell Transcriptome: Ribosome Biogenesis Drives Cell Invasion through Basement Membrane
.
Development
150(9):dev201570.
Goldstein B, Srivastava, M., eds. (2022).
Emerging Model Systems in Developmental Biology
, Academic Press.
(a volume with chapters by scientists who have developed new model organisms and/or advanced tools for emerging models, in the
Current Topics in Developmental Biology
series
)
Goldstein B (2022).
Tardigrades and their emergence as model organisms
, in B Goldstein and M Srivastava,
Emerging Model Systems in Developmental Biology
(pp 173-198), Academic Press.
Pani AM, Gibney TV, Medwig-Kinney TN, Matus DQ, Goldstein B (2022).
A new toolkit to visualize and perturb endogenous LIN-12/Notch signaling in
C. elegans
.
microPublication Biology
https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000603.
Goldstein B (2022).
Tardigrades
.
Nature Methods
19:904-905.
Giovannini I, Boothby TC, Cesari M, Goldstein B, Guidetti R, Rebecchi L (2022).
Production of reactive oxygen species and involvement of bioprotectants during anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade
Paramacrobiotus spatialis
.
Scientific Reports
12:1938.
Lynch AM, Zhu Y, Lucas BG, Winkelman JD, Bai K, Martin SCT, Block S, Slabodnick MM, Audhya A, Goldstein B, Pettitt J, Gardel ML, Hardin J (2022).
TES-1/Tes and ZYX-1/Zyxin protect junctional actin networks under tension during epidermal morphogenesis in the
C. elegans
embryo
.
Current Biology
32:5189-5199.
Hibshman JD, Goldstein B (2021).
LEA motifs promote desiccation tolerance
in vivo
.
BMC Biology
, 19:263. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01176-0
.
Ashley G, Duong T, Levenson MT, Martinez MAQ, Johnsen LC, Hibshman JD, Saeger HN, Palmisano NJ, Doonan R, Martinez-Mendez R, Davidson B, Zhang W, Ragle JM, Medwig-Kinney TN, Sirota SS, Goldstein B, Matus DQ, Dickinson DJ, Reiner DJ, Ward JD (2021).
An expanded auxin-inducible degron toolkit for
Caenorhabditis elegans
.
Genetics
217(3) iyab006 https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyab006
Goldstein B, Avasthi P (2021).
A Guide to Setting Up and Managing a Lab at a Research-Intensive Institution.
BMC Proceedings
15(Suppl 2):8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12919-021-00214-7
Goldstein B (2021).
A Lab of Her Own.
Nautilus
41: 20-33.
Hibshman JD, Clegg JS, Goldstein B (2020).
Mechanisms of Desiccation Tolerance: Themes and Variations in Brine Shrimp, Roundworms, and Tardigrades
.
Frontiers in Physiology
11:592016.
Tintori SC, Golden P, Goldstein B (2020).
Differential Expression Gene Explorer (DrEdGE): A tool for generating interactive online visualizations of gene expression datasets.
Bioinformatics
36:2581-2583.
* Access the DrEdGE tool here to see how it works and build your own web-based gene expression data visualization *
Goldstein B, Nance J (2020).
C. elegans
gastrulation: a model for understanding how cells polarize, change shape, and journey toward the center of an embryo.
Genetics
214:265-277.
Conradt B, Claycomb JM, Goldstein B, Shen K, Oegema K, Desai A, Colón-Ramos DA, Murphy CT, Sherwood DR, Walhout M (2019).
The Power of
C. elegans
: A Tribute to Sydney Brenner.
Developmental Cell
49:496-498.
Gordon KL, Payne SG, Linden-High LM, Pani AM, Goldstein B, Hubbard EJA, Sherwood DR (2019).
Ectopic germ cells can induce niche-like enwrapment by neighboring body wall muscle
.
Current Biology
29:823-833.
Pani AM and B Goldstein (2018).
Direct visualization of a native Wnt in vivo reveals that a long-range Wnt gradient forms by extracellular dispersal.
eLife
7:e38325.
Smith FW, Cumming M, Goldstein B (2018).
Analyses of nervous system patterning genes in the tardigrade
Hypsibius exemplaris
illuminate the evolution of panarthropod brains
.
EvoDevo
9:19.
Heppert JK, Pani AM, Roberts AM, Dickinson DJ, and B Goldstein (2018).
A CRISPR tagging-based screen reveals localized players in Wnt-directed asymmetric cell division.
Genetics
208:1147-1164.
Goldstein B (2018).
The emergence of the tardigrade
Hypsibius exemplaris
as a model system
.
CSH Protocols
, 10:859-866.
McGreevy KM, Heikes KL, Kult S, Tharp ME, and B Goldstein (2018).
Fluorescent cell staining methods for living
Hypsibius exemplaris
embryos
.
CSH Protocols
10:878-884.
Heikes KL and B Goldstein (2018).
Live imaging of tardigrade embryonic development by differential interference contrast microscopy
.
CSH Protocols
10:974-877.
Fielmich LE, Schmidt R, Dickinson DJ, Goldstein B, Akhmanova A, and S Van den Heuvel (2018).
Optogenetic dissection of mitotic spindle positioning in vivo
.
eLife
7:e38199.
Goldstein B (2018).
On Francis Crick, the genetic code, and a clever kid
.
Current Biology
28:R305.
Dickinson DJ, Slabodnick MM, Chen AH, and Goldstein B (2018).
SapTrap assembly of repair templates for Cas9-triggered homologous recombination with a self-excising cassette
.
microPublication
Biology. https://doi.org/10.17912/W2KT0N
Yumerefendi H, Wang H, Dickinson DJ, Lerner A, Malkus P, Goldstein B, Hahn K, and Kuhlman B (2018).
Light-dependent cytoplasmic recruitment enhances the dynamic range of a nuclear import photoswitch
.
Chembiochem
. 19:1319-1325.
Fadero TC, Gerbich TM, Rana K, Suzuki A, DiSalvo M, Schaefer KN, Heppert JK, Boothby TC, Goldstein B, Peifer M, Allbritton NL, Gladfelter AS, Maddox AS and Maddox PS (2018).
LITE microscopy: Tilted light-sheet excitation of model organisms offers high resolution and low photobleaching
.
Journal of Cell Biology
217:
1869-1882.
Martinez P, Allsman LA, Brakke KA, Hoyt C, Hayes J, Liang H, Neher W, Rui Y, Roberts AM, Moradifam A, Goldstein B, Anderson CT, Rasmussen C (2018).
Predicting division planes of three-dimensional cells by soap-film minimization
.
Plant Cell
30:2255-2266.
Dickinson DJ, Schwaeger F, Pintard L, Gotta M, and B Goldstein (2017).
A Single-Cell Biochemistry Approach
Reveals PAR Complex Dynamics during Cell Polarization
.
Developmental Cell
42:416-434.
Boothby TC, Tapia H, Brozena AH, Piszkiewicz S, Smith AE, Giovanninni I, Rebecchi L, Pielak GJ, Koshland D, and B Goldstein (2017).
Tardigrades use intrinsically disordered proteins to survive desiccation.
Molecular Cell
65:975-984.
Smith FW, Bartels PJ, and Goldstein B (2017).
A hypothesis for the composition of the tardigrade brain and its implications for panarthropod brain evolution.
Integrative and Comparative Biology
57:546-559.
Smith FW and B Goldstein (2017).
Segmentation in Tardigrada and diversification of segmental patterns in Panarthropoda.
Arthropod Structure & Development
46:328-340.
Zallen JA and Goldstein B (2017).
Cellular mechanisms of morphogenesis.
Semin Cell Dev Biol
67:101-102.
Russell JJ, Theriot JA, Sood P, Marshall WF, Landweber LF, Fritz-Laylin L, Polka JK, Oliferenko S, Gerbich T, Gladfelter A, Umen J, Bezanilla M, Lancaster MA, He S, Gibson MC, Goldstein B, Tanaka EM, Hu C-K, and Brunet A (2017).
Non-model model organisms.
BMC Biology
15:55.
Goldstein B and Zallen JA (2017).
Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis: new technologies and new findings.
Molecular Biology of the Cell
, 28:699-700.
Naegeli KM, Hastie E, Garde A, Wang Z, Keeley DP, Gordon KL, Pani AM, Kelley LC, Morrissey MA, Chi Q, Goldstein B, Sherwood DR (2017).
Cell Invasion In Vivo via Rapid Exocytosis of a Transient Lysosome-Derived Membrane Domain
.
Developmental Cell
43:403–417.
Linden LM, Gordon KL, Pani AM, Payne SG, Garde A, Burkholder D, Chi Q, Goldstein B and Sherwood DR (2017).
Identification of regulators of germ stem cell enwrapment by its niche in C. elegans.
Developmental Biology
429:271-284.
Ladouceur AM, Ranjan R, Smith L, Fadero T, Heppert J, Goldstein B, Maddox AS, Maddox PS (2017).
CENP-A and topoisomerase-II antagonistically affect chromosome length.
Journal of Cell Biology
216:2645-2655.
Heppert JK, Dickinson DJ, Pani AM, Higgins CD, Steward A, Ahringer J, Kuhn JR, and B Goldstein (2016).
Comparative assessment of fluorescent proteins for
in vivo
imaging in an
animal model system.
Molecular Biology of the Cell
27:3385-3394.
(and a spectrum viewer tool)
Tintori SC, Osborne Nishimura E, Golden P, Lieb JD, and Goldstein B (2016).
A transcriptional lineage of the early
C. elegans
embryo.
Developmental Cell
38:430-444.
(and an interactive data visualization tool)
Smith FW, Boothby TC, Giovannini I, Rebecchi L, Jockusch EL, and B Goldstein (2016).
The compact body plan of tardigrades evolved by the loss of a large body region.
Current Biology
26:224-229.
Marston DJ*, Higgins CD*, Peters KA, Cupp TD, Dickinson DJ, Pani AM, Moore RP, Cox AH, Kiehart DP, and Goldstein B (2016).
MRCK-1 drives apical constriction in
C. elegans
by linking developmental patterning to force generation.
Current Biology
26:2079-2089.
Sullivan-Brown J, Tandon P, Bird KE, Dickinson DJ, Tintori SC, Heppert JK, Meserve JH, Trogden KP, Orlowski SK, Conlon FL, and Goldstein B (2016).
Identifying regulators of morphogenesis common to vertebrate neural tube closure and
C. elegans
gastrulation.
Genetics
202:123-139.
Heppert JK and Goldstein B (2016).
Remodelling germ cells by intercellular cannibalism.
Nature Cell Biology
18:1267-1268.
Goldstein B and King N (2016).
The Future of Cell Biology: Emerging Model Organisms.
Trends in Cell Biology
11:818-824.
Goldstein B (2016).
Sydney Brenner on the Genetics of
Caenorhabditis elegans
.
Genetics
204:1-2.
Dickinson DJ and Goldstein B (2016).
CRISPR-based methods for
Caenorhabditis elegans
genome engineering.
Genetics
202:885-901.
Dickinson, DJ, AM Pani, JK Heppert, CD Higgins, and B Goldstein (2015).
Streamlined Genome Engineering with a Self-Excising Drug Selection Cassette.
Genetics
200:1035-1049.
Das A, Dickinson DJ, Wood CC, Goldstein B, and Slep KC (2015).
Crescerin uses a TOG domain array to regulate microtubules in the primary cilium.
Mol Biol Cell
26:4248-64.
Boothby TC, Tenlen JR, Smith FW, Wang JR, Patanella KA, Osborne Nishimura E, Tintori SC, Li Q, Jones CD, Yandell M, Messina DN, Glasscock J, and Goldstein B (2015).
Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade.
PNAS
112:15976-15981
and
follow-up
letter
.
Goldstein, B and DP Kiehart (2015).
Moving Inward: Establishing the Mammalian Inner Cell Mass.
Developmental Cell
34:385-386.
Yumerefendi H, Dickinson DJ, Wang H, Zimmerman SP, Bear JE, Goldstein B, Hahn K, and Kuhlman B (2015).
Control of Protein Activity and Cell Fate Specification via Light-Mediated Nuclear Translocation.
PLoS One
10(6):e0128443.
Osborne Nishimura E, Zhang JC, Werts AD, Goldstein B, Lieb JD (2015).
Asymmetric Transcript Discovery by RNA-seq in
C. elegans
Blastomeres Identifies neg-1, a Gene Important for Anterior Morphogenesis.
PLoS Genetics
11(4):e1005117.
Sarkies P, Selkirk ME, Jones JT, Blok V, Boothby T, Goldstein B, Hanelt B, Ardila-Garcia A, Fast NM, Schiffer PM, Kraus C, Taylor MJ, Koutsovoulos G, Blaxter ML, and Miska EA (2015).
Ancient and Novel Small RNA Pathways Compensate for the Loss of piRNAs in Multiple Independent Nematode Lineages.
PLoS Biology
13(2):e1002061.
Goldstein B (2015).
The Thrill of Defeat: What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped.
Nautilus
online, Feb 26 2015, updated and reprinted May 30, 2019.
Martin, A.C. and B. Goldstein (2014).
Apical constriction: themes and variations on a cellular mechanism driving morphogenesis.
Development
141:1987-1998.
Dickinson, D.J., J.D. Ward, D.J. Reiner and B. Goldstein (2013).
Engineering the
Caenorhabditis elegans
genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination.
Nature Methods
10:1028-1034.
Tenlen, J.R., S. McCaskill and B. Goldstein (2013).
RNA interference can be used to disrupt gene function in tardigrades.
Development Genes and Evolution
223:171-181.
Peters EC, Gossett AJ, Goldstein B, Der CJ, Reiner DJ (2013).
Redundant Canonical and Noncanonical Caenorhabditis elegans p21-Activated Kinase Signaling Governs Distal Tip Cell Migrations.
G3
3:181-195.
Roh-Johnson, M.*, G. Shemer.*, C.D. Higgins, J.H. McClellan, A.D. Werts, U.S. Tulu, L. Gao, E. Betzig, D.P. Kiehart and B. Goldstein (2012).
Triggering a Cell Shape Change by Exploiting Pre-Existing Actomyosin Contractions.
Science
335:1232-1235.
Gao, L., L. Shao, C.D. Higgins, J.S. Poulton, M. Peifer, M.W. Davidson, X. Wu, B. Goldstein and E. Betzig (2012).
Noninvasive imaging of 3D dynamics in thickly fluorescent specimens beyond the diffraction limit.
Cell
151:1370-1385.
Sullivan-Brown, J. and B. Goldstein (2012)
Neural tube closure: The curious case of shrinking junctions.
Current Biology
22:R574-R576.
Edgar, L.G. and B. Goldstein (2012).
Culture and Manipulation of Embryonic Cells
, in Caenorhabditis elegans: Cell Biology and Physiology, eds. Joel H. Rothman and Andrew Singson.
Methods in Cell Biology
107:151-175.
Tse, Y.C., M. Werner, K.M. Longhini, J.-C. Labbé, B. Goldstein and M. Glotzer (2012)
RhoA activation during polarization and cytokinesis of the early C. elegans embryo are differentially dependent on NOP-1 and CYK-4.
Molecular Biology of the Cell
23:4020-4031.
Werts, A.D., M. Roh-Johnson and B. Goldstein (2011)
Dynamic localization of C. elegans TPR-GoLoco proteins mediates mitotic spindle orientation by extrinsic signaling.
Development
138:4411-4422.
Sawyer, J.M., S. Glass, T. Li, G. Shemer, N.D. White, N.G. Starostina, E.T. Kipreos, C.D. Jones, and B. Goldstein (2011)
Overcoming Redundancy: an RNAi Enhancer Screen for Morphogenesis Genes in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Genetics
188:549-564.
Goldstein, B. (2011)
Primer: Visualizing with ImageJ.
Make
27:116-121. (This is a magazine article that introduces non-scientists to ImageJ, encouraging hobbyists to write new ImageJ plugins that might benefit science)
and
a 2018 online update of the article
.
Harrell, J.R. and B. Goldstein (2011)
Internalization of multiple cells during C. elegans gastrulation depends on common cytoskeletal mechanisms but different cell polarity and cell fate regulators.
Developmental Biology
350:1-12.
Werts, A.D. and B. Goldstein (2011)
How signaling between cells can orient a mitotic spindle.
Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
22:842-849.
Higgins C.D. and B. Goldstein (2010)
Asymmetric Cell Division: A New Way to Divide Unequally.
Current Biology
R1029-1031.
Sawyer, J.M., J.R. Harrell, G. Shemer, J. Sullivan-Brown, M. Roh-Johnson, and B. Goldstein (2010)
Apical constriction: A cell shape change that can drive morphogenesis.
Developmental Biology
341:5-19.
Roh-Johnson, M., J. Sullivan-Brown, and B. Goldstein (2010)
Roles for Actin Dynamics in Cell Movements During Development
. Chapter in
Actin-Based Motility: Cellular, Molecular and Physical Aspects
, ed. M.-F. Carlier, Springer.
Arata, Y., J.-Y. Lee, B. Goldstein, and H. Sawa (2010)
Extracellular control of PAR protein localization during asymmetric cell division in the C. elegans embryo.
Development
137:3337-3345.
McCarthy Campbell, E.K., A.D. Werts, and B. Goldstein (2009)
A Cell Cycle Timer for Asymmetric Spindle Positioning.
PLoS Biology
7(4): e1000088.
Roh-Johnson, M. and B. Goldstein (2009)
In vivo roles for Arp2/3 in cortical actin organization during C. elegans gastrulation.
J Cell Science
122: 3983-3993.
Goldstein, B. and H. Hamada (2009)
Shape Meets Polarity in Japan.
Development
136: 2487-2492.
Marston, D.J., M. Roh, A. Mikels, R. Nusse, and B. Goldstein (2008)
Wnt signaling during Caenorhabditis elegans embryonic development.
Methods in Molecular Biology
469: 103-111.
Goldstein, B. and I.G. Macara (2007)
The PAR Proteins: Fundamental Players in Animal Cell Polarization.
Developmental Cell
13: 609-622
.
Gabriel, W.N., R. McNuff, S.K. Patel, T.R. Gregory, W.R. Jeck, C.D. Jones, and B. Goldstein (2007)
The Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a New Model for Studying the Evolution of Development.
Developmental Biology
312: 545-559.
Gabriel, W.N. and B. Goldstein (2007)
Segmental Expression of Pax3/7 and Engrailed Homologs in Tardigrade Development.
Development Genes and Evolution
217: 421-433.
Marston, D.J. and B. Goldstein (2006)
Symmetry Breaking in C. elegans: Another Gift from the Sperm.
Developmental Cell
11: 273-274.
Lee, J.-Y.*, D.J. Marston*, T. Walston, J. Hardin, A. Halberstadt, and B. Goldstein (2006)
Wnt/Frizzled Signaling Controls C. elegans Gastrulation by Activating Actomyosin Contractility.
Current Biology
16: 1986-1997.
Marston, D.J. and B. Goldstein (2006)
Actin-based forces driving embryonic morphogenesis in C. elegans.
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
16: 392-398.
Goldstein B.*, H. Takeshita*, K. Mizumoto, and H. Sawa (2006)
Wnt Signals Can Function as Positional Cues in Establishing Cell Polarity.
Developmental Cell
10: 391-396.
McCarthy, E.K. and B. Goldstein (2006)
Asymmetric Spindle Positioning.
Current Opinion in Cell Biology
18: 79-85.
Nance, J., J.-Y. Lee, and B. Goldstein (2005)
Gastrulation in C. elegans
.
WormBook
, ed. The C. elegans Research Community.
McCarthy, E.K. and B. Goldstein (2005)
Asymmetric Division: A Kinesin for Spindle Positioning.
Current Biology
15: R591-593
.
Dudley, N.R., A.Z. Amin, and B. Goldstein (2005)
Genes Required for RNA Interference
, pp 55-68 in
RNA Interference Technology: From Basic Science to Drug Development
, edited by K. Appasani (Cambridge University Press).
Dudley, N.R. and B. Goldstein (2005)
RNA Interference in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Chapter in
RNA Silencing: Methods and Protocols
, edited by G. Carmichael (Humana Press),
Methods in Molecular Biology
309:29-38.
Labbé, J.-C., E. McCarthy and B. Goldstein (2004)
The forces that position a mitotic spindle asymmetrically are tethered until after the time of spindle assembly.
The Journal of Cell Biology
167: 245-256.
Cheeks, R.J., J.C. Canman, W.N. Gabriel, N. Meyer, S. Strome and B. Goldstein (2004)
C. elegans PAR Proteins Function by Mobilizing and Stabilizing Asymmetrically Localized Protein Complexes.
Current Biology
14: 851-862.
Goldstein, B. (2003)
Asymmetric Division: AGS Proteins Position the Spindle.
Current Biology
13: R879-R880.
Labbé, J.-C., P.S. Maddox, E.D. Salmon, and B. Goldstein (2003)
PAR proteins regulate microtubule dynamics at the cell cortex in C. elegans.
Current Biology
13: 707-714.
Lee, J.-Y. and B. Goldstein (2003)
Mechanisms of cell positioning during C. elegans gastrulation.
Development
130: 307-320.
Dudley, N.R. and B. Goldstein (2003)
RNA interference: Silencing in the cytoplasm and nucleus.
Curr Opin Mol Ther
5:113-117.
Dudley, N.R., J.-C. Labbé, and B. Goldstein (2002)
Using RNA Interference to Identify Genes Required for RNA Interference.
PNAS
99:4191-4196.
Labbé, J.-C. and B. Goldstein (2002)
Embryonic Development: A New SPN on Cell Fate Specification.
Current Biology
12:R396-R398.
Goldstein, B. and M. Blaxter (2002)
Tardigrades.
Current Biology
12: R475.
Goldstein, B. (2001)
On the Evolution of Early Development in the Nematoda.
Phil Trans Royal Society B
356: 1521-1531.
Goldstein, B., M. Leviten, and D. A. Weisblat (2001)
Dorsal and Snail homologs in leech development.
Development Genes and Evolution
211: 329-337.
Goldstein B. (2000)
The Professional Debunker
(review of the book Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert L. Park),
Nature Cell Biology
2:E212.
Goldstein, B. (2000)
Embryonic polarity: A role for microtubules.
Current Biology
10:R820-R822.
Goldstein, B. (2000)
When cells tell their neighbors which direction to divide.
Developmental Dynamics
218:23-29.
Goldstein, B., L. Frisse, and W. K. Thomas (1998)
Embryonic axis specification in nematodes: evolution of the first step in development.
Current Biology
8: 157-160.
Wittmann, C., O. Bossinger, B. Goldstein, M. Fleischmann, R. Kohler, K. Brunschwig, H. Tobler, and F. Müller (1997)
The expression of the C. elegans labial-like Hox gene ceh-13 during early embryogenesis relies on cell fate and on anteroposterior cell polarity.
Development
124: 4193-4200.
Goldstein, B. and G. Freeman (1997)
Axis specification in animal development.
BioEssays
19: 105-116.
Goldstein, B. and S. N. Hird (1996)
Specification of the anteroposterior axis in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Development
122: 1467-1474.
Goldstein, B. (1995)
Cell contacts orient some cell division axes in the early C. elegans embryo.
The Journal of Cell Biology
129: 1071-1080.
Goldstein, B. (1995)
An analysis of the response to gut induction in the C. elegans embryo.
Development
121: 1227-1236.
Goldstein, B., S. N. Hird, and J. G.White (1993)
Cell polarity in early C. elegans development.
Development
1993 Supplement: 279-287.
Goldstein, B. (1993)
Establishment of gut fate in the E lineage of C. elegans: the roles of lineage-dependent mechanisms and cell interactions.
Development
118: 1267-1277.
Goldstein, B. (1992)
Induction of gut in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos.
Nature
357: 255-257.
Reviews of our work:
Faculty Opinions reviews of "Direct visualization of a native Wnt in vivo reveals that a long-range Wnt gradient forms by extracellular dispersal"
An interview with Dan Dickinson at
Development
's web site, The Node, about his paper in
Developmental Cell
"Protein Clustering Shapes Polarity Protein Gradients", a
Developmental Cell
Preview article about Dickinson et al. 2017 and two other papers
Faculty of 1000 review of "A Single-Cell Biochemistry Approach Reveals PAR Complex Dynamics during Cell Polarization"
Faculty of 1000 review of "Tardigrades use intrinsically disordered proteins to survive desiccation"
"Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Adaptively Reorganize Cellular Matter During Stress", a
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
article about Boothby et al. 2017
"Meet the author" interview with Thomas Boothby in
Molecular Cell
"Meet the author" interview with Sophie Tintori in
Developmental Cell
Faculty of 1000 review of "MRCK-1 drives apical constriction in C. elegans by linking developmental patterning to force generation"
"Zoology: The Walking Heads", a
Current Biology
dispatch about Smith et al. 2016
Highlight in
Genetics
of "Identifying Regulators of Morphogenesis Common to Vertebrate Neural Tube Closure and Caenorhabditis elegans Gastrulation"
ASCB Profile of Bob
Highlight in
Genetics
of "Streamlined genome engineering with a self-excising drug selection cassette"
Inside Life Science article from NIGMS about recent cell migration findings including ours
Interview with Bob in
The Journal of Cell Biology
Faculty of 1000 review of "RNA interference can be used to disrupt gene function in tardigrades"
"Cell Biology: Embryonic Clutch Control", by William Razzell and Paul Martin in
Science
Faculty of 1000 reviews of "Triggering a Cell Shape Change by Exploiting Pre-Existing Actomyosin Contractions"
"Cell Change Up", a review of "Triggering a Cell Shape Change by Exploiting Pre-Existing Actomyosin Contractions" in
The Scientist
Faculty of 1000 review of "Dynamic localization of C. elegans TPR-GoLoco proteins mediates mitotic spindle orientation by extrinsic signaling"
"TPR-GoLoco moves to orientate division", an In This Issue highlight about Werts et al (2011) in
Development
Genetics highlight of "Overcoming Redundancy: an RNAi Enhancer Screen for Morphogenesis Genes in
Caenorhabditis elegans
"
Faculty of 1000 review of "Overcoming Redundancy: an RNAi Enhancer Screen for Morphogenesis Genes in
Caenorhabditis elegans
"
Faculty of 1000 review of "
A Cell Cycle Timer for Asymmetric Spindle Positioning
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Faculty of 1000 review of "
The Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini, a New Model for Studying the Evolution of Development
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Faculty of 1000 review of "Segmental Expression of Pax3/7 and Engrailed Homologs in Tardigrade Development"
"Gastrulation: Wnts Signal Constriction", a Dispatch article about Lee et al. 2006, from
Current Biology
Faculty of 1000 reviews of "Wnt/Frizzled Signaling Controls C. elegans Gastrulation by Activating Actomyosin Contractility"
"Tugging and pulling in asymmetric cell divisions" from
The Journal of Cell Biology
Faculty of 1000 reviews of "Wnt Signals Can Function as Positional Cues in Establishing Cell Polarity"
"Bringing classical embryology to C. elegans gastrulation", a Preview article written by our hero Eric Wieschaus and colleagues, from
Developmental Cell
"Microtubule cytoskeleton: Navigating the intracellular landscape", a Dispatch article about Labbé et al 2003 and four other new papers, from
Current Biology
"Gastrulation: Partaking of the bottle", a Dispatch article about Lee & Goldstein 2003 and one other paper, from
Current Biology
Faculty of 1000 reviews of "Mechanisms of cell positioning during C. elegans gastrulation"
"New & Notable: RNA Interference", from
The Scientist
Faculty of 1000 reviews of "Using RNA Interference to Identify Genes Required for RNA Interference"
"UNC's Bob Goldstein talks about getting into RNAi and hunting for genes", from
RNAi News
"RNAi to RNAi", from
Genome Biology
Popular press, blogs:
NPR
Tardigrade space project begun in the lab by then-postdoc Thomas Boothby arrived at the International Space Station
- NASA story
NPR
and
NY Times
NPR
and
NY Times
stories about postdoc Thomas Boothby and colleagues' discoveries about disordered proteins
Discover Magazine blog
"Tardigrades Are One Giant Head",
a story about our evo-devo work using tardigrades
NPR Science Friday
"Behold The Mighty, Microscopic Water Bear",
a video about our evo-devo work using tardigrades
Wired
a Wired Science story about extreme survival of water bears and our work
National Geographic Channel
a National Geographic Channel clip of us talking about tardigrades
Gig Posters for Scientists
Some stories about the posters
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The Scientist, 2009
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Fast Company, 2019
Endeavors Magazine
"Tardi-whats?", a story about our evo-devo work using tardigrades
Science
"Cannes of Worms", about our C. elegans Movies web site, from Science 295:2331 (2002)
Cover images:
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