2020
Bostock, M. P., Prasad, A. P., Chaouni, R, Yuen, A. C., Sousa-Nunes, R, Amoyel, A and Fernandes, V.M.* An immobilization technique for long-term time-lapse imaging of explanted Drosophila tissues. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. |
2017
Fernandes, V.M.‡*, Chen, Z.*, Rossi, A.M., Zipfel, J. and Desplan, C. Glia relay differentiation cues to coordinate neuronal development in Drosophila. Science 357: 886-891. 2016 Chen, Z., Rodriguez, A.D.V., Li, X., Erclik, T. Fernandes, V.M.* 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. |
2015
Fernandes, V.M., Pradhan-Sundd, T, Blaquiere, J.A. and Verheyen, E.M. Ras/MEK/MAPK-mediated regulation of heparin sulphate proteoglycans promotes retinal fate in the Drosophila eye–antennal disc. Developmental biology 402 (1), 109-118. |
2014
Fernandes, V.M., 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, V.M., Panchapakesan, S.S.S., Braid, L.R. and Verheyen, E.M. Nemo promotes Notch-mediated lateral inhibition downstream of proneural factors. Developmental biology 392 (2), 334-343. |
2011
Smith, C.D. 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, C.R. et al., Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5667-5672. |
2009
Kim, K.J. and Fernandes, V.M. 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
2020
Lago-Baldaia, I., Fernandes, V.M.* and Ackerman, S.D.*. More Than Mortar: Glia as Architects of Nervous System Development and Disease. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. |
2018
Rossi, A. M. and Fernandes, V.M.* 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, A. M.*, Fernandes, V.M.* and Claude Desplan. Timing temporal transitions during brain development. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 42:84-92. |
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