Rachel Cox: 1993-1998 (Genetics & Molecular Biology)
Current position
Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Uniformed Services University
Postdoctoral fellow
with Dr. Alan Spradling, HHMI and Director of Dept. of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Awarded: Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Publications from Peifer lab
- McEwen, D.G., Cox, R.T. (co-first author), and Peifer, M. (2000) The canonical Wg and JNK signaling cascades function in parallel to promote both dorsal closure and ventral patterning. Development 127: 3607-3617.
- Cox, R.T., McEwen, D.G., Myster, D.G., Duronio, R.J., Loureiro, J., and Peifer, M. (2000). A screen for mutations that suppress the phenotype of Drosophila armadillo, the b -catenin homolog. Genetics 155: 1725-1740.
- Cox, R.T., Pai, L.-M., Miller, J.R., Orsulic, S., Stein, J., McCormick, C.A., Audeh, Y., Wang, W., Moon, R.T., and Peifer, M. (1999). Membrane-tethered Drosophila Armadillo cannot transduce Wingless signal on its own. Development 126: 1327-1335.
- Cox, R.T., Pai, L.-M., Kirkpatrick, C., Stein, J., and Peifer, M. (1999). Roles of the C-terminus of Armadillo in Wingless signaling in Drosophila. Genetics 153: 319-332.
- Cox, R.T., and Peifer, M. (1998). Wingless/Wnt signaling: The inconvenient complexitites of life. Current Biology 8: R140-R144.
- Cavallo, R.A., Cox, R.T. (co-first author), Moline, M.M., Roose, J., Polevoy, G.A., Clevers, H., Peifer, M., and Bejsovec, A. (1998). Drosophila TCF and Groucho interact to repress Wingless signaling activity. Nature 395: 604-608.
- Cox, R., Kirkpatrick, C., and Peifer, M. (1996). Armadillo is required for adherens junction assembly, cell polarity and morphogenesis during Drosophila embryogenesis, J. Cell Biol. 134: 133-148.
Joe Loureiro: 1993-1998 (Biology)
Current position
Senior Investigator I, Computational Biology Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Postdoctoral fellow
with Dr. Frank Gertler, MIT
Awarded: NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
Publications from Peifer lab
- Grevengoed, E.E., Loureiro, J., Jesse T., and Peifer, M. (2001) Abelson kinase regulates epithelial morphogenesis in Drosophila. Journal of Cell Biology 155:1185-1197
- Loureiro, J., Akong, K., Cayirlioglu, P., Baltus, A.E., DiAntonio, A., and Peifer, M. (2001) In vivo tests of Armadillo/ß-catenin’s proposed roles in cell migration and process extension suggest that these roles are tissue specific. Developmental Biology 235: 33-44.
- Cox, R.T., McEwen, D.G., Myster, D.G., Duronio, R.J., Loureiro, J., and Peifer, M. (2000). A screen for mutations that suppress the phenotype of Drosophila armadillo, the b -catenin homolog. Genetics 155: 1725-1740.
- Loureiro, J. (1999). Wnt signaling: A quick guide. Current Biology 9: R4.
- Loureiro, J., and Peifer, M. (1998). The roles of Armadillo, a Drosophila catenin, during central nervous system development. Current Biology 8: 622-632.
- van de Wetering, M., Cavallo, R., Dooijes, D., van Beest, M., van Es, J., Loureiro, J., Ypma, A., Hursh, D., Jones, T., Bejsovec, A., Peifer, M., Mortin, M., and Clevers, H. (1997). Armadillo co-activates transcription driven by the product of the Drosophila segment polarity gene dTCF. Cell 88: 789-799.
- Peifer, M., Orsulic, S., Pai, L.-M., and Loureiro, J. (1993). A model system for cell adhesion and signal transduction in Drosophila (Review). 1993 Development Suppl. 163-176.
