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Erez Raz is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple related subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases

Erez Raz has authored and co-authored multiple scientific papers. Some recent publications include:

  • "Blebs-Formation, Regulation, Positioning, and Role in Amoeboid Cell Migration," 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • "Zebrafish dazl regulates cystogenesis and germline stem cell specification during the primordial germ cell to germline stem cell transition," 2021, Development
  • "AMPK adapts metabolism to developmental energy requirement during dendrite pruning in Drosophila," 2021, Cell Reports
  • "Chemokine-biased robust self-organizing polarization of migrating cells in vivo," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "E-cadherin focuses protrusion formation at the front of migrating cells by impeding actin flow," 2020, Nature Communications

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Development
  • Nature Communications
  • Developmental Cell

Among frequent collaborators, Erez Raz has worked extensively with Katsiaryna Tarbashevich, Kim Joana Westerich, Zahra Labbaf, Theresa Gross-Thebing, and Jan Schick.

Best Publications

  • A Role for Piwi and piRNAs in Germ Cell Maintenance and Transposon Silencing in Zebrafish

    Saskia Houwing;Leonie M. Kamminga;Eugene Berezikov;Daniela Cronembold

  • RNA-binding protein Dnd1 inhibits microRNA access to target mRNA.

    Martijn Kedde;Markus J. Strasser;Bijan Boldajipour;Joachim A.F. Oude Vrielink

  • Guidance of Primordial Germ Cell Migration by the Chemokine SDF-1

    Maria Doitsidou;Michal Reichman-Fried;Juürg Stebler;Marion Köprunner

  • Control of Chemokine-Guided Cell Migration by Ligand Sequestration

    Bijan Boldajipour;Harsha Mahabaleshwar;Elena Kardash;Michal Reichman-Fried

  • CXCR7 functions as a scavenger for CXCL12 and CXCL11.

    Ulrike Naumann;Elisabetta Cameroni;Monika Pruenster;Harsha Mahabaleshwar

  • A zebrafish nanos-related gene is essential for the development of primordial germ cells

    Marion Köprunner;Christine Thisse;Bernard Thisse;Erez Raz

  • The chemokine SDF1/CXCL12 and its receptor CXCR4 regulate mouse germ cell migration and survival

    Kathleen A. Molyneaux;Hélène Zinszner;Prabhat S. Kunwar;Kyle Schaible

  • Migration of zebrafish primordial germ cells: a role for myosin contraction and cytoplasmic flow.

    Heiko Blaser;Michal Reichman-Fried;Irinka Castanon;Karin Dumstrei

  • dead end, a Novel Vertebrate Germ Plasm Component, Is Required for Zebrafish Primordial Germ Cell Migration and Survival

    Gilbert Weidinger;Jürg Stebler;Krasimir Slanchev;Karin Dumstrei

  • The function and regulation of vasa-like genes in germ-cell development.

    Erez Raz

  • The role and regulation of blebs in cell migration

    Ewa K Paluch;Erez Raz

  • Development without germ cells: The role of the germ line in zebrafish sex differentiation

    Krasimir Slanchev;Jürg Stebler;Guillermo de la Cueva-Méndez;Erez Raz

  • Primordial germ-cell development: the zebrafish perspective.

    Erez Raz

  • Guidelines for morpholino use in zebrafish

    Didier Y. R. Stainier;Erez Raz;Nathan D. Lawson;Stephen C. Ekker

  • A role for Rho GTPases and cell-cell adhesion in single-cell motility in vivo.

    Elena Kardash;Michal Reichman-Fried;Jean-Léon Maître;Bijan Boldajipour

  • The Drosophila embryonic midline is the site of Spitz processing, and induces activation of the EGF receptor in the ventral ectoderm

    Myriam Golembo;Erez Raz;Ben-Zion Shilo

  • Production of maternal-zygotic mutant zebrafish by germ-line replacement

    Brian Ciruna;Gilbert Weidinger;Holger Knaut;Bernard Thisse

  • Filopodia-based Wnt transport during vertebrate tissue patterning

    Eliana Stanganello;Anja I. H. Hagemann;Benjamin Mattes;Claude Sinner

  • Arteries are formed by vein-derived endothelial tip cells

    Cong Xu;Sana S. Hasan;Inga Schmidt;Susana F. Rocha

  • Primordial germ cell migration in the chick and mouse embryo: the role of the chemokine SDF-1/CXCL12

    Jürg Stebler;Derek Spieler;Krasimir Slanchev;Kathleen A. Molyneaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Thisse
Bernard Thisse University of Virginia
Christine Thisse
Christine Thisse University of Virginia
Gilbert Weidinger
Gilbert Weidinger University of Ulm
Ben-Zion Shilo
Ben-Zion Shilo Weizmann Institute of Science
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel
Lilianna Solnica-Krezel Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Brand
Michael Brand TU Dresden
Ryan Lister
Ryan Lister University of Western Australia
Philip W. Ingham
Philip W. Ingham University of Bath
Ronald H. A. Plasterk
Ronald H. A. Plasterk University of Amsterdam
Manfred Schartl
Manfred Schartl University of Würzburg

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