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Overview

Rolf Zeller is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Developmental Biology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Congenital limb and hand anomalies
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities

Rolf Zeller has published multiple papers, a selection of which includes:

  • "HOX13-dependent chromatin accessibility underlies the transition towards the digit development program," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Dynamic and self-regulatory interactions among gene regulatory networks control vertebrate limb bud morphogenesis," 2020, Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • "Gene Regulatory and Expression Differences between Mouse and Pig Limb Buds Provide Insights into the Evolutionary Emergence of Artiodactyl Traits," 2020, Cell Reports
  • "Spatial regulation by multiple Gremlin1 enhancers provides digit development with cis-regulatory robustness and evolutionary plasticity," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Gli3 utilizes Hand2 to synergistically regulate tissue-specific transcriptional networks," 2020, eLife

Their work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Development
  • Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • Cell Reports

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Aimée Zúñiga
  • Jonas Malkmus
  • Angela Morabito
  • Rushikesh Sheth
  • Victorio Palacio

Rolf Zeller's research contributions span topics important to understanding developmental biology processes, gene regulatory networks, and genetic mechanisms underlying congenital abnormalities and evolutionary traits.

Best Publications

  • Hematoxylin and Eosin Staining of Tissue and Cell Sections

    Andrew H. Fischer;Kenneth A. Jacobson;Jack Rose;Rolf Zeller

  • Rearrangements of the cytoskeleton and cell contacts induce process formation during differentiation of conditionally immortalized mouse podocyte cell lines

    Peter Mundel;Jochen Reiser;Aimée Zúñiga Mejı́a Borja;Hermann Pavenstädt

  • Impaired cerebral cortex development and blood pressure regulation in FGF-2-deficient mice.

    Rosanna Dono;Gemma Texido;Rudolf Dussel;Heimo Ehmke;Heimo Ehmke

  • The short stature homeobox gene SHOX is involved in skeletal abnormalities in Turner syndrome

    Mark Clement-Jones;Simone Schiller;Ercole Rao;Rüdiger J. Blaschke

  • Progression of Vertebrate Limb Development Through SHH-Mediated Counteraction of GLI3

    Pascal te Welscher;Aimée Zuniga;Sanne Kuijper;Thijs Drenth

  • Signal relay by BMP antagonism controls the SHH/FGF4 feedback loop in vertebrate limb buds.

    Aimée Zúñiga;Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis;Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis;Andrew P. McMahon;Rolf Zeller;Rolf Zeller

  • Recapitulation of endochondral bone formation using human adult mesenchymal stem cells as a paradigm for developmental engineering

    Celeste Scotti;Beatrice Tonnarelli;Adam Papadimitropoulos;Arnaud Scherberich

  • Vertebrate limb bud development : moving towards integrative analysis of organogenesis

    Rolf Zeller;Javier López-Ríos;Aimée Zuniga

  • Gremlin-mediated BMP antagonism induces the epithelial-mesenchymal feedback signaling controlling metanephric kidney and limb organogenesis.

    Odyssé Michos;Lia Panman;Kristina Vintersten;Konstantin Beier

  • Synaptopodin-deficient mice lack a spine apparatus and show deficits in synaptic plasticity.

    Thomas Deller;Martin Korte;Sophie Chabanis;Alexander Drakew

  • The cytomegalovirus enhancer: a pan-active control element in transgenic mice.

    E V Schmidt;G Christoph;R Zeller;P Leder

  • Mutual genetic antagonism involving GLI3 and dHAND prepatterns the vertebrate limb bud mesenchyme prior to SHH signaling

    Pascal te Welscher;Marian Fernandez-Teran;Marian A. Ros;Rolf Zeller

  • Localized expression of the atrial natriuretic factor gene during cardiac embryogenesis.

    R Zeller;K D Bloch;B S Williams;R J Arceci

  • 'Formins': proteins deduced from the alternative transcripts of the limb deformity gene.

    Richard P. Woychik;Richard L. Maas;Richard L. Maas;Rolf Zeller;Rolf Zeller;Thomas F. Vogt

  • Distinct roles of Hand2 in initiating polarity and posterior Shh expression during the onset of mouse limb bud development.

    Antonella Galli;Dimitri Robay;Marco Osterwalder;Xiaozhong Bao

  • A Self-Regulatory System of Interlinked Signaling Feedback Loops Controls Mouse Limb Patterning

    Jean-Denis Bénazet;Mirko Bischofberger;Eva Tiecke;Alexandre Gonçalves

  • Tissue remodelling through branching morphogenesis

    Markus Affolter;Rolf Zeller;Emmanuel Caussinus

  • Reduction of BMP4 activity by gremlin 1 enables ureteric bud outgrowth and GDNF/WNT11 feedback signalling during kidney branching morphogenesis.

    Odyssé Michos;Alexandre Gonçalves;Javier Lopez-Rios;Eva Tiecke

  • Nucleocytoplasmic distribution of snRNPs and stockpiled snRNA-binding proteins during oogenesis and early development in Xenopus laevis

    Rolf Zeller;Thomas Nyffenegger;Eddy M. De Robertis

  • Vertebrate Limb Development: Moving from Classical Morphogen Gradients to an Integrated 4-Dimensional Patterning System

    Jean-Denis Bénazet;Rolf Zeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Visel
Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Iain W. Mattaj
Iain W. Mattaj Human Technopole
Philip Leder
Philip Leder Harvard University
José Luis de la Pompa
José Luis de la Pompa Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research
Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule Collège de France
Richard L. Maas
Richard L. Maas Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ivan Martin
Ivan Martin University Hospital of Basel
E. M. De Robertis
E. M. De Robertis University of California, Los Angeles
Richard P. Woychik
Richard P. Woychik National Institutes of Health

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