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  1. T1 Transitions: Mechanical Feedback for Active Tissue Expansion

    Article • eLife, April 2023, eLife

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  2. The evolution of gastrulation morphologies

    Article • Development, April 2023, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  3. Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviors in the chick embryo

    Article • Science Advances, January 2023, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  4. Estimating stresses driving tissue flows using a stokes inverse problem

    Article • International Journal of Computer Mathematics, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  5. Jeffrey G. Williams (1948-2022): a pioneer molecular biologist in development

    Article • Development, October 2022, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  6. Reconstruction of distinct vertebrate gastrulation modes via modulation of key cell behaviours in the chick embryo

    Article • October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  7. Effects of spatial confinement on migratory properties of Dictyostelium discoideum cells

    Article • Communicative & Integrative Biology, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  8. Analysis of barotactic and chemotactic guidance cues on directional decision-making of Dictyostelium discoideum cells in confined environments

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  9. Cellular processes driving gastrulation in the avian embryo

    Article • Mechanisms of Development, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  10. Dynamic morphoskeletons in development

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  11. Chemotaxis overrides Barotaxis during Directional Decision-Making inDictyostelium discoideum

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  12. Measurement of junctional tension in epithelial cells at the onset of primitive streak formation in the chick embryo via non-destructive optical manipulation

    Article • Development, January 2020, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  13. Oscillatory cAMP cell-cell signalling persists during multicellular Dictyostelium development

    Article • Communications Biology, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  14. Measurement of junctional tension in epithelial cells at the onset of primitive streak formation in the chick embryo via non-destructive optical manipulation

    Article • December 2018, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  15. Gaussian vs. Bessel light-sheets: performance analysis in live large sample imaging

    Article • August 2017, SPIE

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  16. Active Vertex Model for cell-resolution description of epithelial tissue mechanics

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2017, PLOS

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  17. Progress and perspectives in signal transduction, actin dynamics, and movement at the cell and tissue level: lessons fromDictyostelium

    Article • Interface Focus, August 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Hans G Othmer, Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  18. The multicellularity genes of dictyostelid social amoebas

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  19. Modelling cell movement, cell differentiation, cell sorting and proportion regulation in Dictyostelium discoideum aggregations

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  20. Myosin-II-mediated cell shape changes and cell intercalation contribute to primitive streak formation

    Article • Nature Cell Biology, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  21. Alignment of an acoustic manipulation device with cepstral analysis of electronic impedance data

    Article • Ultrasonics, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  22. SILAC-based proteomic quantification of chemoattractant-induced cytoskeleton dynamics on a second to minute timescale

    Article • Nature Communications, February 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  23. Investigating the motility of Dictyostelium discodeum using high frequency ultrasound as a method of manipulation

    Article • October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  24. Collective Epithelial and Mesenchymal Cell Migration During Gastrulation

    Article • Current Genomics, May 2012, Bentham Science Publishers

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  25. Tumourigenic fragments of APC cause dominant defects in directional cell migration in multiple model systems

    Article • Disease Models & Mechanisms, January 2012, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  26. A ‘chemotactic dipole’ mechanism for large-scale vortex motion during primitive streak formation in the chick embryo

    Article • Physical Biology, July 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  27. Emergent cell and tissue dynamics from subcellular modeling of active biomechanical processes

    Article • Physical Biology, July 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  28. Correlating Cell Behavior with Tissue Topology in Embryonic Epithelia

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2011, PLOS

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  29. Modeling Gastrulation in the Chick Embryo: Formation of the Primitive Streak

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2010, PLOS

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  30. Suppression of cellular proliferation and invasion by the concerted lipid and protein phosphatase activities of PTEN

    Article • Oncogene, November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  31. Imaging cell signalling and movement in development

    Article • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  32. Collective cell migration in development

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, September 2009, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  33. Regulation of cell migration during chick gastrulation

    Article • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, August 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  34. Who moves whom during primitive streak formation in the chick embryo

    Article • HFSP Journal, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  35. PDGF signalling controls the migration of mesoderm cells during chick gastrulation by regulating N-cadherin expression

    Article • Development, November 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  36. The migration of paraxial and lateral plate mesoderm cells emerging from the late primitive streak is controlled by different Wnt signals

    Article • BMC Developmental Biology, June 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  37. Wnt3a-mediated chemorepulsion controls movement patterns of cardiac progenitors and requires RhoA function

    Article • Development, March 2008, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  38. The Mechanisms Underlying Primitive Streak Formation in the Chick Embryo

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  39. The role of FGF signalling in the formation of the primitive streak

    Article • Developmental Biology, June 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  40. Dual mode of paraxial mesoderm formation during chick gastrulation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2007, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  41. PtdIns(3,4,5)P3-Dependent and -Independent Roles for PTEN in the Control of Cell Migration

    Article • Current Biology, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  42. Imaging of cell migration

    Article • The EMBO Journal, August 2006, Wiley

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  43. Cell movement during chick primitive streak formation

    Article • Developmental Biology, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  44. Chemotactic cell movement during Dictyostelium development and gastrulation

    Article • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, August 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  45. The regulation of cell migration by PTEN

    Article • Biochemical Society Transactions, December 2005, Portland Press Ltd.

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  46. Paxillin is required for cell-substrate adhesion, cell sorting and slug migration duringDictyosteliumdevelopment

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, September 2005, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  47. Analysis of tissue flow patterns during primitive streak formation in the chick embryo

    Article • Developmental Biology, August 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  48. Signaling to Cytoskeletal Dynamics during Chemotaxis

    Article • Developmental Cell, July 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  49. In vivo analysis of 3-phosphoinositide dynamics duringDictyosteliumphagocytosis and chemotaxis

    Article • Journal of Cell Science, December 2004, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  50. Dictyostelium morphogenesis

    Article • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, August 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  51. The Cyclase-associated Protein CAP as Regulator of Cell Polarity and cAMP Signaling inDictyostelium

    Article • Molecular Biology of the Cell, February 2004, American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB)

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  52. Modelling of Dictyostelium discoideum slug migration

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  53. Chemotactic cell movement during development

    Article • Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, August 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  54. Visualizing Signals Moving in Cells

    Article • Science, April 2003, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  55. Cell Movement Patterns during Gastrulation in the Chick Are Controlled by Positive and Negative Chemotaxis Mediated by FGF4 and FGF8

    Article • Developmental Cell, September 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  56. Simultaneous quantification of cell motility and protein-membrane-association using active contours

    Article • Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton, August 2002, Wiley

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  57. Visualizing PI3 Kinase-Mediated Cell-Cell Signaling during Dictyostelium Development

    Article • Current Biology, July 2002, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  58. Article • Journal of Biological Physics, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  59. A Dictyostelium nuclear phosphatidylinositol phosphate kinase required for developmental gene expression

    Article • The EMBO Journal, November 2001, Wiley

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  60. A temperature-sensitive adenylyl cyclase mutant of Dictyostelium

    Article • The EMBO Journal, May 2000, Wiley

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  61. Morphogenetic cell movement in Dictyostelium

    Article • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, December 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  62. A Model forDictyosteliumSlug Movement

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, July 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  63. Modeling Chemotactic Cell Sorting during Dictyostelium discoideum Mound Formation

    Article • Biophysical Journal, February 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  64. Induction of Optical Density Waves and Chemotactic Cell Movement inDictyostelium discoideumby Microinjection of cAMP Pulses

    Article • Developmental Biology, December 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  65. Propagating waves control Dictyostelium discoideum morphogenesis

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, May 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  66. Null Mutations of theDictyosteliumCyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase Gene Block Chemotactic Cell Movement in Developing Aggregates

    Article • Developmental Biology, December 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  67. A Model for Cell Movement DuringDictyosteliumMound Formation

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  68. Multiarmed Spirals in Excitable Media

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 1997, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  69. A Hydrodynamic model forDictyostelium discoideumMound Formation

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, February 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  70. Analysis of Cell Movement and Signalling during Ring Formation in an Activated Gα1 Mutant ofDictyostelium discoideumThat Is Defective in Prestalk Zone Formation

    Article • Developmental Biology, January 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  71. Analysis of Optical Density Wave Propagation and Cell Movement during Mound Formation in Dictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Developmental Biology, August 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  72. Spatial Pattern Formation During Aggregation of the Slime MouldDictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, August 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  73. Spiral and concentric waves organize multicellular Dictyostelium mounds

    Article • Current Biology, August 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  74. The Dictyostelium cell cycle and its relationship to differentiation

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, December 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  75. Patterns of cell movement within the Dictyostelium slug revealed by cell type-specific, surface labeling of living cells

    Article • Cell, June 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  76. Analysis of Cell Cycle Progression during the Development of Dictyostelium and Its Relationship to Differentiation

    Article • Developmental Biology, November 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  77. Chemotactic stimulation of aggregation-stage Dictyostelium cells induces rapid changes in energy metabolism, as measured by succinic thiokinase phosphorylation

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, March 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  78. Three-dimensional scroll waves organize Dictyostelium slugs.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 1992, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  79. Analysis of optical density wave propagation and cell movement in the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, April 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  80. Analysis of optical density wave propagation and cell movement in the celllular slime mould

    Article • Cell Differentiation and Development, August 1989, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  81. Chapter 24 Vital Staining Methods Used in the Analysis of Cell Sorting in Dictyostelium discoideum

    Article • January 1987, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  82. Dictyostelium discoideum: Cell-type proportioning, cell-differentiation preference, cell fate, and the behavior of anterior-like cells in Hs1/Hs2 and G+/G− mixtures

    Article • Differentiation, August 1986, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  83. A frequency difference in optical-density oscillations of early Dictyostelium discoideum density classes and its implications for development

    Article • Differentiation, November 1984, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  84. Separation of Dictyostelium discoideum cells into density classes throughout their development and their relationship to the later cell types

    Article • Differentiation, November 1984, Elsevier

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer

  85. A flow fluorimetric analysis of the cell cycle during growth and differentiation inDictyostelium discoideum

    Article • Wilhelm Roux s Archives of Developmental Biology, January 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cornelis jan Weijer