Selected Publications for Marianne Bronner

Taneyhill, L., Coles, E., and Bronner-Fraser, M., (2007) Snail2 directly represses cadherin6B during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transitions of the neural crest. Development (in press).

Kee, Y., Hwang, B-J, Sternberg, PW, and Bronner-Fraser, M. (2007) Evolutionary conservation of cell migration genes: from nematode neurons to vertebrate neural crest. Genes and Development (in press)

Yu, J-K, Satou, Y., Holland, N.D., Shin-I, T., Kohara, Y., Satoh, N., Bronner-Fraser, M., Holland, L.Z. (2007) Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolutionary origin of the gastrula organizer. Nature (in press).

Bailey, AP, Bhattacharyya, S., Bronner-Fraser2 M and Streit, A (2006) Lens specification is the ground state of all sensory placodes, from which FGF promotes olfactory identity Devel. Cell 11, 505-17.

McCauley, D. and Bronner-Fraser, M. (2006) Importance of SoxE in neural crest development and evolution of the pharynx. Nature 441, 750-752.

Basch, M., Bronner-Fraser, M. and Garcia-Castro, M. (2006) Specification of neural crest occurs during gastrulation and requires Pax7. Nature 441, 218-222.

Sauka-Spengler T, Bronner-Fraser, M. (2006) Development and evolution of the migratory neural crest: a gene regulatory perspective.Curr Opin Genet Dev., 16, 360-6.

Gammill, L., Gonzalez, C., Gu, C. and Bronner-Fraser, M. (2006) Guidance of trunk neural crest migration requires Neuropilin-2/Semaphorin3F signaling. Development 133, 99-106.

Lwigale, P., and Bronner-Fraser, M. (2005) Corneal keratocytes retain neural crest progenitor cell properties. Dev. Biol. 288, 284-293.

Kee, Y., & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2005) To proliferate or to die: role of Id3 in cell cycle progression & survival of neural crest progenitors. Genes & Development 19, 744-55

Meulemans, D. & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2004). Gene-Regulatory Interactions in Neural Crest Development & Evolution Developmental Cell 7, 291-299.

Hemmati, HD, Nakano, Lazareff, Masterman, Geschwind, Bronner-Fraser,M. Kornblum, H. (2003) Cancerous stem cells can arise from human pediatric brain tumors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 15178-83.

DeBellard, M., Rao, Y. & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2003) Dual function of Slit2 in repulsion & enhanced migration of trunk neural crest cells. J. Cell Biol. 162, 269-280.

Gammill, L. & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2002) A genomic analysis of neural crest induction. Development 129, 5731-41.

García-Castro, M., Marcelle, C. & Bronner-Fraser, M. (2002) Ectodermal Wnt function as a neural crest inducer. Science 297, 848-51.