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John B. Wallingford is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Genetics. Additional subfields include Biomedical Engineering and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The main research topics addressed by Wallingford include:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Genetic and Kidney Cyst Diseases
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Reproductive Biology and Fertility

Wallingford has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several venues. The most common publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Developmental Biology
  • eLife
  • Development
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell

Prominent recent papers by Wallingford cover a range of cell and developmental biology topics:

  • Functional partitioning of a liquid-like organelle during assembly of axonemal dyneins, 2020, eLife
  • Mechanical heterogeneity along single cell-cell junctions is driven by lateral clustering of cadherins during vertebrate axis elongation, 2021, eLife
  • Neural tube closure requires the endocytic receptor Lrp2 and its functional interaction with intracellular scaffolds, 2021, Development
  • Convergent extension requires adhesion-dependent biomechanical integration of cell crawling and junction contraction, 2022, Cell Reports
  • The developmental biology of kinesins, 2020, Developmental Biology

Wallingford has collaborated multiple times with several researchers, including:

  • Chanjae Lee
  • Edward M. Marcotte
  • Robert J. Huebner
  • Shinuo Weng
  • Ophelia Papoulas

Best Publications

  • Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis

    Adam M. Session;Adam M. Session;Yoshinobu Uno;Taejoon Kwon;Taejoon Kwon;Jarrod A. Chapman

  • Dishevelled controls cell polarity during Xenopus gastrulation

    John B. Wallingford;Brian A. Rowning;Kevin M. Vogeli;Ute Rothbächer

  • Convergent Extension: The Molecular Control of Polarized Cell Movement during Embryonic Development

    John B Wallingford;Scott E Fraser;Richard M Harland

  • The developmental biology of Dishevelled: an enigmatic protein governing cell fate and cell polarity.

    John B. Wallingford;Raymond Habas

  • Panorama of ancient metazoan macromolecular complexes

    Cuihong Wan;Cuihong Wan;Blake Borgeson;Sadhna Phanse;Fan Tu

  • Planar cell polarity in development and disease

    Mitchell T. Butler;John B. Wallingford

  • Dishevelled controls apical docking and planar polarization of basal bodies in ciliated epithelial cells.

    Tae Joo Park;Brian J Mitchell;Philip B Abitua;Chris Kintner

  • The Continuing Challenge of Understanding, Preventing, and Treating Neural Tube Defects

    John B. Wallingford;Lee A. Niswander;Gary M. Shaw;Richard H. Finnell

  • Ciliogenesis defects in embryos lacking inturned or fuzzy function are associated with failure of planar cell polarity and Hedgehog signaling

    Tae Joo Park;Saori L Haigo;John B Wallingford

  • Dishevelled genes mediate a conserved mammalian PCP pathway to regulate convergent extension during neurulation.

    Jianbo Wang;Natasha S. Hamblet;Sharayne Mark;Mary E. Dickinson

  • Wnt9b signaling regulates planar cell polarity and kidney tubule morphogenesis

    Courtney M. Karner;Rani Chirumamilla;Shigehisa Aoki;Shigehisa Aoki;Peter Igarashi

  • Planar Cell Polarity Acts Through Septins to Control Collective Cell Movement and Ciliogenesis

    Su Kyoung Kim;Asako Shindo;Tae Joo Park;Tae Joo Park;Edwin C. Oh

  • Shroom induces apical constriction and is required for hingepoint formation during neural tube closure.

    Saori L. Haigo;Jeffrey D. Hildebrand;Richard M. Harland;John B. Wallingford

  • Neural tube closure requires Dishevelled-dependent convergent extension of the midline.

    John B. Wallingford;Richard M. Harland

  • Systematic discovery of nonobvious human disease models through orthologous phenotypes

    Kriston L. McGary;Tae Joo Park;John O. Woods;Hye Ji Cha

  • Mutations in VANGL1 Associated with Neural-Tube Defects

    Zoha Kibar;Elena Torban;Jonathan R. McDearmid;Jonathan R. McDearmid;Annie Reynolds;Annie Reynolds

  • Multiciliated cells: a review

    Eric R. Brooks;John B. Wallingford

  • Strange as it may seem: the many links between Wnt signaling, planar cell polarity, and cilia

    John B. Wallingford;Brian Mitchell

  • PCP and septins compartmentalize cortical actomyosin to direct collective cell movement.

    Asako Shindo;John B. Wallingford

  • Planar cell polarity and the developmental control of cell behavior in vertebrate embryos.

    John B. Wallingford

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward M. Marcotte
Edward M. Marcotte The University of Texas at Austin
Richard H. Finnell
Richard H. Finnell Baylor College of Medicine
Richard M. Harland
Richard M. Harland University of California, Berkeley
Steven L. Brody
Steven L. Brody Washington University in St. Louis
Andrew J. Ewald
Andrew J. Ewald Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Scott E. Fraser
Scott E. Fraser University of Southern California
Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Friedhelm Hildebrandt Boston Children's Hospital
Brunella Franco
Brunella Franco University of Naples Federico II
Asao Fujiyama
Asao Fujiyama National Institute of Genetics
Laurence Faivre
Laurence Faivre University of Burgundy

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