Publications
§ Corresponding/ co-corresponding author
* Equal contribution
Primary Research Articles
§ Corresponding/ co-corresponding author
* Equal contribution
Primary Research Articles
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2025
Donoghue A, Mosby L, Lago-Baldaia I, Hodgetts T, Ursu E, Erten Z, Hadjivasiliou Z § and Fernandes VM§. Morphogen and juxtacrine signalling dynamically integrate to specify cell fates with single-cell resolution. Biorxiv doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.15.676088 |
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2023
Lago-Baldaia I, Cooper M*, Seroka, A*, Trivedi C, Powell GT, Wilson S, Ackerman S§ and Fernandes VM§. A Drosophila glial cell atlas reveals a mismatch between detectable transcriptional and morphological diversity. PLoS Biol 21(10): e3002328. |
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2022 Prasad AP, Lago-Baldaia I, Bostock MP, Housseini Z and Fernandes VM§. Differentiation signals from glia are fine-tuned to set neuronal numbers during development. eLife 11: e78092. Bostock MP, Prasad AP, Donoghue A and Fernandes VM§. Photoreceptors generate neuronal diversity in their target field through a Hedgehog morphogen gradient in Drosophila. eLife 11:e78093. |
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2020
Bostock MP*, Prasad AP*, Chaouni R, Yuen AC, Sousa-Nunes R, Amoyel A and Fernandes VM§. An immobilization technique for long-term time-lapse imaging of explanted Drosophila tissues. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. |
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2017
Fernandes VM§*, Chen Z*, Rossi AM, Zipfel J and Desplan C. Glia relay differentiation cues to coordinate neuronal development in Drosophila. Science 357: 886-891. 2016 Chen Z, Rodriguez ADV, Li X, Erclik T, Fernandes VM§ and Desplan C§. A Unique Class of Neural Progenitors in the Drosophila Optic Lobe Generates Both Migrating Neurons and Glia. Cell reports 15: 1–13. |
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2015
Fernandes VM, Pradhan-Sundd T, Blaquiere JA and Verheyen EM. Ras/MEK/MAPK-mediated regulation of heparin sulphate proteoglycans promotes retinal fate in the Drosophila eye–antennal disc. Developmental biology 402 (1), 109-118. |
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2014
Fernandes VM, McCormack K, Lewellyn L and Verheyen E. Integrins regulate apical constriction via microtubule stabilization in the Drosophila eye disc epithelium. Cell reports 9 (6), 2043-2055. Fernandes VM, Panchapakesan SSS, Braid LR and Verheyen EM. Nemo promotes Notch-mediated lateral inhibition downstream of proneural factors. Developmental biology 392 (2), 334-343. |
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2011
Smith CD et al., Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5673-5678. Smith CR et al., Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5667-5672. |
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2009
Kim KJ and Fernandes VM. Effects of ploidy and recombination on evolution of robustness in a model of the segment polarity network. PLOS computational biology 5 (2), e1000296. |
Invited Reviews and Commentaries
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2024
Purice MD*, Lago-Baldaia I*, Fernandes VM§, Singhvi A§. Molecular profiling of invertebrate glia. Glia. (Epub ahead of print) Fernandes VM§, Auld V§, Klämbt C§. Glia as Functional Barriers and Signaling Intermediaries. Cold Spring Harb Prospect Biol. 16: a041423. |
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2020
Lago-Baldaia I, Fernandes VM§ and Ackerman SD§. More Than Mortar: Glia as Architects of Nervous System Development and Disease. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8: 611269. |
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2018
Rossi AM and Fernandes VM§ Wrapping Glial Morphogenesis and Signaling Control the Timing and Pattern of Neuronal Differentiation in the Drosophila Lamina. Journal of Experimental Neuroscience 12: 1–6. 2016 Rossi AM*, Fernandes VM* and Claude Desplan. Timing temporal transitions during brain development. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 42:84-92. |
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