Professor Daniel St Johnston
Position: Director of the gurdon Institute
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http://www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/research/stjohnston
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Professor Daniel St Johnston is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.
Most tumours arise from epithelial tissues composed of polarised cells that stick together to form sheets, and a loss of polarity is a hallmark of tumours. We investigate how polarity is established in different epithelial tissues in flies and mammals, and analyse the effects of polarity mutations on epithelial organisation.
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Bergstralh, D. T., Lovegrove, H. E. and St Johnston, D. (2015). Lateral adhesion drives reintegration of misplaced cells into epithelial monolayers. Nat. Cell Biol. doi:10.1038/ncb3248
Morais de Sá, E., A. Mukherjee, N. Lowe and D. St Johnston (2014). Slimb antagonises the aPKC/Par-6 complex to control oocyte and epithelial polarity. Development 141: 2984-2992.
Bergstralh, D.T., H.E. Lovegrove, and D. St Johnston. (2013). Discs large links spindle orientation to apical-basal polarity in Drosophila epithelia. Curr. Biol. 23:1707-1712.
Zhao, T., Graham, O. Raposo A. and St Johnston, D. (2012) Growing microtubules push the oocyte nucleus to polarize the Drosophila dorsal-ventral axis. Science, 336, 999-1003.
Morais de Sa, E., Mirouse, V. and St Johnston D. (2010) aPKC phosphorylation of Bazooka defines the apical/lateral border in Drosophila epithelial cells. . Cell, 141, 509-523