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prdm1a drives a fate switch between hair cells of different mechanosensory organs

Sandler JE, Tsai YY, Chen S, Sabin L, Lush ME, Sur A, Ellis E, Tran NTT, Cook M, Scott AR, Kniss JS, Farrell JA, Piotrowski T. Nat Commun. 2025;16:7662 doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-62942-0.

Paired and solitary ionocytes in the zebrafish olfactory epithelium

Peloggia J, Cheung KY, Petkova MD, Schalek R, Boulanger-Weill J, Wu Y, Wang S, van Hateren NJ, Januszewski M, Jain V, Lichtman JW, Engert F, Piotrowski T, Whitfield TT, Jesuthasan S. Chem Senses. 2025.

Stem and progenitor cell proliferation are independently regulated by cell type-specific cyclinD genes

Lush ME, Tsai YY, Chen S, Munch D, Peloggia J, Sandler JE, Piotrowski T. Nat Commun. 2025;16:5913 doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60251-0.

Environmental and molecular control of tissue-specific ionocyte differentiation in zebrafish

An anti-inflammatory activation sequence governs macrophage transcriptional dynamics during tissue injury in zebrafish

Denans N, Tran NTT, Swall ME, Diaz DC, Blanck J, Piotrowski T. Nat Commun. 2022;13:5356 doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-33015-3.

Single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals three sequential phases of gene expression during zebrafish sensory hair cell regeneration

Baek S, Tran NTT, Diaz DC, Tsai YY, Acedo JN, Lush ME, Piotrowski T. [published ahead of print 3-28-2022]. Dev Cell. 2022;57:1-21. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2022.1003.1001.

Tumor-initiating stem cell shapes its microenvironment into an immunosuppressive barrier and pro-tumorigenic niche

He X, Smith SE, Chen S, Li H, Wu D, Meneses-Giles PI, Wang Y, Hembree M, Yi K, Zhao X, Guo F, Unruh JR, Maddera LE, Yu Z, Scott A, Perera A, Wang Y, Zhao C, Bae K, Box A, Haug JS, Tao F, Hu D, Hansen DM, Qian P, Saha S, Dixon D, Anant S, Zhang D, Lin EH, Sun W, Wiedemann LM, Li L. Cell Rep. 2021;36:109674.doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109674.

Adaptive cell invasion maintains lateral line organ homeostasis in response to environmental changes.

Peloggia J, Munch D, Meneses-Giles P, Romero-Carvajal A, Lush ME, Lawson ND, McClain M, Pan YA, Piotrowski T. Dev Cell. 2021;56:1296-1312 e1297.