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Randall B. Widelitz is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, covering a total of 29 publications. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to cell biology and molecular biology, with particular involvement in subfields such as urology, rehabilitation, and plant science.

The scientific work of Widelitz centers around various topics in skin and cellular biology research, with 20 publications addressing this area. Additional areas of investigation include hair growth and disorders and wound healing and treatments, each with six publications. Other research topics include cellular mechanics and interactions, Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and connexins and lens biology.

Widelitz has frequently published in several venues. Notable publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with two articles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Developmental Cell, Development, and npj Regenerative Medicine.

Frequent collaborators in Widelitz's research include Cheng-Ming Chuong, Ting-Xin Jiang, Ping Wu, and Yung-Chih Lai.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Randall B. Widelitz include:

  • Folding Keratin Gene Clusters during Skin Regional Specification, 2020, Developmental Cell
  • Cyclic growth of dermal papilla and regeneration of follicular mesenchymal components during feather cycling, 2021, Development
  • The mechano-chemical circuit drives skin organoid self-organization, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Epidermal-dermal coupled spheroids are important for tissue pattern regeneration in reconstituted skin explant cultures, 2023, npj Regenerative Medicine
  • Regional Specific Differentiation of Integumentary Organs: Regulation of Gene Clusters within the Avian Epidermal Differentiation Complex and Impacts of SATB2 Overexpression, 2021, Genes

Best Publications

  • Diverse feather shape evolution enabled by coupling anisotropic signalling modules with self-organizing branching programme

    Ang Li;Seth Figueroa;Ting-Xin Jiang;Ping Wu

  • Local inhibitory action of BMPs and their relationships with activators in feather formation: implications for periodic patterning.

    Han Sung Jung;Philippa H. Francis-West;Randall B. Widelitz;Ting Xin Jiang

  • The morphogenesis of feathers.

    Mingke Yu;Ping Wu;Randall B. Widelitz;Cheng-Ming Chuong

  • Molecular Shaping of the Beak

    Ping Wu;Ting-Xin Jiang;Sanong Suksaweang;Randall Bruce Widelitz

  • Wnt signaling through canonical and non-canonical pathways: recent progress.

    Randall Widelitz

  • Self-organization of periodic patterns by dissociated feather mesenchymal cells and the regulation of size, number and spacing of primordia.

    Ting Xin Jiang;Han Sung Jung;Randall B. Widelitz;Cheng Ming Chuong

  • Evo-Devo of Amniote Integuments and Appendages

    Ping Wu;Lianhai Hou;Maksim Plikus;Michael Warren Hughes

  • Organ-level quorum sensing directs regeneration in hair stem cell populations

    Chih Chiang Chen;Lei Wang;Maksim V. Plikus;Ting Xin Jiang

  • Adhesion molecules in skeletogenesis: II. Neural cell adhesion molecules mediate precartilaginous mesenchymal condensations and enhance chondrogenesis.

    Randall B. Widelitz;Ting-Xin Jiang;Ben A. Murray;Cheng-Ming Chuong

  • Self-Organizing and Stochastic Behaviors During the Regeneration of Hair Stem Cells

    Maksim V. Plikus;Ruth E. Baker;Chih Chiang Chen;Chih Chiang Chen;Clyde Fare

  • The biology of feather follicles.

    Mingke Yu;Zhicao Yue;Ping Wu;Da-Yu Wu

  • Competitive balance of intrabulge BMP/Wnt signaling reveals a robust gene network ruling stem cell homeostasis and cyclic activation

    Eve Kandyba;Yvonne Leung;Yi-Bu Chen;Randall Widelitz

  • Evo-devo of feathers and scales: building complex epithelial appendages.

    Cheng-Ming Chuong;Rajas Chodankar;Randall B Widelitz;Ting-Xin Jiang

  • EARLY EVENTS DURING AVIAN SKIN APPENDAGE REGENERATION : DEPENDENCE ON EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL INTERACTION AND ORDER OF MOLECULAR REAPPEARANCE

    Cheng-Ming Chuong;Randall B. Widelitz;Sheree Ting-Berreth;Ting-Xin Jiang

  • Morphogenesis of chicken liver: identification of localized growth zones and the role of β-catenin/Wnt in size regulation

    Sanong Suksaweang;Chih Min Lin;Ting Xin Jiang;Michael W. Hughes

  • beta-catenin in epithelial morphogenesis: conversion of part of avian foot scales into feather buds with a mutated beta-catenin.

    Randall B. Widelitz;Ting-Xin Jiang;Jianfen Lu;Cheng-Ming Chuong

  • Mapping stem cell activities in the feather follicle

    Zhicao Yue;Ting-Xin Jiang;Randall Bruce Widelitz;Cheng-Ming Chuong

  • Development, Regeneration, and Evolution of Feathers

    Chih Feng Chen;John Foley;Pin Chi Tang;Ang Li

  • Effects of cycloheximide on thermotolerance expression, heat shock protein synthesis, and heat shock protein mRNA accumulation in rat fibroblasts.

    R B Widelitz;B E Magun;E W Gerner

  • Morphoregulation of avian beaks: comparative mapping of growth zone activities and morphological evolution.

    Ping Wu;Ting-Xin Jiang;Jen-Yee Shen;Randall Bruce Widelitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Cheng-Ming Chuong
Cheng-Ming Chuong University of Southern California
Ting-Xin Jiang
Ting-Xin Jiang University of Southern California
Ping Wu
Ping Wu The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Maksim V. Plikus
Maksim V. Plikus University of California, Irvine
Chih-Min Lin
Chih-Min Lin Yuan Ze University
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
Bruce E. Magun
Bruce E. Magun Oregon Health & Science University
Eugene W. Gerner
Eugene W. Gerner University of Arizona
Robert E. Maxson
Robert E. Maxson University of Southern California
Philip K. Maini
Philip K. Maini University of Oxford

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