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Daniel P. Kiehart

Daniel P. Kiehart

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
14128
World Ranking
11875
National Ranking
5102

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel P. Kiehart is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Cell Biology, Biophysics, Molecular Biology, Ocean Engineering, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, prominently featuring Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry, Silk-based biomaterials and applications, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, and Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel P. Kiehart include Janice M. Crawford, Daniel Haertter, Stephanie M. Fogerson, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Stefano Di Talia.

They have published research in several venues, notably bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Developmental Biology, UNC Libraries, Development, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel P. Kiehart include:

  • "DeepProjection: specific and robust projection of curved 2D tissue sheets from 3D microscopy using deep learning" (2022), Development
  • "Wound repair in sea urchin larvae involves pigment cells and blastocoelar cells" (2022), Developmental Biology
  • "A minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure" (2024), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Notochord segmentation in zebrafish controlled by iterative mechanical signaling" (2024), Developmental Cell
  • "Minimal vertex model explains how the amnioserosa avoids fluidization during Drosophila dorsal closure" (2023), arXiv (Cornell University)

Daniel P. Kiehart was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Lattice Light Sheet Microscopy: Imaging Molecules to Embryos at High Spatiotemporal Resolution

    Bi Chang Chen;Wesley R. Legant;Kai Wang;Lin Shao

  • Multiple forces contribute to cell sheet morphogenesis for dorsal closure in Drosophila.

    Daniel P. Kiehart;Catherine G. Galbraith;Kevin A. Edwards;Wayne L. Rickoll

  • Morphogenesis in Drosophila requires nonmuscle myosin heavy chain function.

    P E Young;A M Richman;A S Ketchum;D P Kiehart

  • Visualizing Intracellular Organelle and Cytoskeletal Interactions at Nanoscale Resolution on Millisecond Timescales.

    Yuting Guo;Di Li;Siwei Zhang;Yanrui Yang

  • Forces for Morphogenesis Investigated with Laser Microsurgery and Quantitative Modeling

    M. Shane Hutson;Yoichiro Tokutake;Ming-Shien Chang;James W. Bloor

  • Cytoplasmic myosin from Drosophila melanogaster.

    D P Kiehart;R Feghali

  • Polymerization of actin. IV. Role of Ca++ and H+ in the assembly of actin and in membrane fusion in the acrosomal reaction of echinoderm sperm.

    LG Tilney;DP Kiehart;C Sardet;M Tilney

  • The regulatory light chain of nonmuscle myosin is encoded by spaghetti-squash, a gene required for cytokinesis in Drosophila

    Roger E. Karess;Xiao-jia Chang;Kevin A. Edwards;Sanjay Kulkarni

  • Dynamic changes in the distribution of cytoplasmic myosin during Drosophila embryogenesis.

    Paul E. Young;Thomas C. Pesacreta;Daniel P. Kiehart

  • GFP-Moesin Illuminates Actin Cytoskeleton Dynamics in Living Tissue and Demonstrates Cell Shape Changes during Morphogenesis in Drosophila

    Kevin A. Edwards;Maddy Demsky;Ruth A. Montague;Nate Weymouth

  • Apoptotic force and tissue dynamics during Drosophila embryogenesis

    Yusuke Toyama;Xomalin G. Peralta;Adrienne R. Wells;Daniel P. Kiehart

  • Nonmuscle Myosin II Generates Forces that Transmit Tension and Drive Contraction in Multiple Tissues during Dorsal Closure

    Josef D. Franke;Ruth A. Montague;Daniel P. Kiehart

  • Dynamics and elasticity of the fibronectin matrix in living cell culture visualized by fibronectin-green fluorescent protein.

    Tomoo Ohashi;Daniel P. Kiehart;Harold P. Erickson

  • Triggering a Cell Shape Change by Exploiting Preexisting Actomyosin Contractions

    Minna Roh-Johnson;Gidi Shemer;Christopher D. Higgins;Joseph H. McClellan

  • Studies on the in vivo sensitivity of spindle microtubules to calcium ions and evidence for a vesicular calcium-sequestering system.

    Daniel P. Kiehart

  • Drosophila nonmuscle myosin II has multiple essential roles in imaginal disc and egg chamber morphogenesis

    Kevin A. Edwards;Daniel P. Kiehart

  • Temporal sequence and spatial distribution of early events of fertilization in single sea urchin eggs

    A Eisen;D P Kiehart;S J Wieland;G T Reynolds

  • Microinjection of echinoderm eggs: apparatus and procedures.

    Daniel P. Kiehart

  • Free-electron-laser-based biophysical and biomedical instrumentation

    G. S. Edwards;R. H. Austin;F. E. Carroll;M. L. Copeland

  • Drosophila spectrin. II. Conserved features of the alpha-subunit are revealed by analysis of cDNA clones and fusion proteins.

    T. J. Byers;R. Dubreuil;D. Branton;D. P. Kiehart

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas D. Pollard
Thomas D. Pollard Yale University
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein
Lawrence S.B. Goldstein University of California, San Diego
Daniel Branton
Daniel Branton Harvard University
John A. Cooper
John A. Cooper Washington University in St. Louis
Bob Goldstein
Bob Goldstein University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Harold P. Erickson
Harold P. Erickson Duke University
Stephan W. Grill
Stephan W. Grill Max Planck Society
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner University of Cambridge
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Richard F. Haglund
Richard F. Haglund Vanderbilt University

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