Biography and Research Interest

Gastrulation movements in vertebrates; particularly regulation of convergent extension in the zebrafish embryo.

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Heisenberg, C.P. and Tada, M. (2002) Wnt signalling: a moving picture emerges from van gogh. Curr. Biol. 12(4):R126-128.

Tada, M. and Smith, J.C. (2000) Xwnt11, a target of Xenopus Brachyury: Regulation of gastrulation movements via Dishevelled, but not through the canonical Wnt pathway. Development 127, 2227-2238.

Smith, J.C., Conlon, F.L.m, Saka, Y., and Tada, M. (2000) Xwnt11 and the regulation of gastrulation in Xenopus. Philos. Trans. R Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 355(1399):923-930.

Saka, Y., Tada, M., and Smith, J.C. (2000) A screen for targets of Xenopus T-box gene Xbra. Mech. Dev. 93, 27-39.

Trindade, M., Tada, M., and Smith, J.C. (1999) DNA-binding specificity and embryological function of Xom (Xvent-2). Dev. Biol. 216, 442-456.

Casey, E.S., Tada, M., Fairclough, L., Wylie, C.C., Heasman, J., and Smith, J.C. (1999) Bix4 is activated by VegT and mediates endoderm formation in Xenopus development. Development 126, 4193-4200.

Tada, M., Casey, E.S., Fairclough, L., and Smith, J.C. (1998) Bix1, a direct target of Xenopus T-box genes, causes formation of ventral mesoderm and endoderm. Development 125, 3997-4006.

Tada, M., O'Reilly, M.A., and Smith, J.C. (1997) Analysis of competence and of Brachyury autoinduction by use of hormone-inducible Xbra. Development 124, 2225-2234.