Biography and Research Interest

Physicist turned developmental biologists interested in morphogenesis, signalling, and temporal regulation of development.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

H. Connahs, S. Tlili, J. van Creij, T. Y. J. Loo, T. Banerjee, T. E. Saunders* and A. Monteiro*. Activation of butterfly eyespots by Distal-less is consistent with a reaction-diffusion process. Development 146, 169367 (2019)

L. Durrieu, D. Kirrmaier, T. Schneidt, I. Kats, L. Hufnagel*, T. E. Saunders* and M. Knop*. Bicoid gradient formation mechanism and dynamics revealed by protein lifetime analysis. Molecular Systems Biology 14, e8355 (2018)

S. Zhang, C. Amourda, D. Garfield and T. E. Saunders*. Selective Filopodia Adhesion Ensures Robust Cell Matching in the Drosophila Heart. Developmental Cell 46, 189 (2018).

J. Chong, C. Amourda and T. E. Saunders*. Temporal development of Drosophila embryos is highly robust across a wide temperature range. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 15, 20180304 (2018)

J.-F. Rupprecht, K. H. Ong, J. Yin, A. Huang, H. H. Q Dinh, S. Zhang, A. P. Singh, W. Yu*, and T. E. Saunders*. Geometric constraints induce cellular skew and apical-to-basal neighbor exchange in curved epithelial tissues. Molecular Biology of the Cell 28, 3582 (2017)

A. Huang, C. Amourda, S. Zhang, N. S. Tolwinski and T. E Saunders*. Decoding temporal interpretation of the morphogen Bicoid in the early Drosophila embryo, ELife 6, e26258 (2017)

A. Singh, R. Galland, G. Grenci, J.-B. Subarita, V. Studer, V. Viasnoff* and T. E. Saunders*. Rapid multiplexed and multiplane fluorescence correlation spectroscopy using single-objective light-sheet microscopy, Biophysical Journal 112, 133-142 (2017)