Cellular structures such as the nucleus, Golgi, centrioles, and spindle show remarkable diversity between species, but the mechanisms that produce these variations in cell biology are not known. We are investigating the evolutionary and genetic processes that lead to variations in the spindle and cell division and attempting to integrate mechanistic and quantitative genetic theories of these processes.
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Mutation Is a Sufficient and Robust Predictor of Genetic Variation for Mitotic Spindle Traits in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics [Internet]. 2016. Publisher's VersionAbstract Download Paper .
Scaling, selection, and evolutionary dynamics of the mitotic spindle. Current Biology. 2015;25 :732–740. Download Paper .
Deciphering the Evolutionary History of Open and Closed Mitosis. Current Biology. 2014;24 :R1099–R1103. Download Paper .