Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Naidu, V. G., Zhang, Y., Lowe, S., Ray, A., Zhu, H., & Li, X. (2020). Temporal progression of Drosophila medulla neuroblasts generates the transcription factor combination to control T1 neuron morphogenesis. Developmental Biology, 464(1), 35-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2020.05.005
Pinto-Teixeira, F., Koo, C., Rossi, A. M., Neriec, N., Bertet, C., Li, X., Del-Valle-Rodriguez, A., & Desplan, C. (2018). Development of Concurrent Retinotopic Maps in the Fly Motion Detection Circuit. Cell, 173(2), 485-498.e11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.053
Erclik, T., Li, X., Courgeon, M., Bertet, C., Chen, Z., Baumert, R., Ng, J., Koo, C., Arain, U., Behnia, R., Del Valle Rodriguez, A., Senderowicz, L., Negre, N., White, K. P., & Desplan, C. (2017). Integration of temporal and spatial patterning generates neural diversity. Nature, 541(7637), 365-370. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature20794
Chen, Z., Del Valle Rodriguez, A., Li, X., Erclik, T., Fernandes, V. M., & Desplan, C. (2016). A Unique Class of Neural Progenitors in the Drosophila Optic Lobe Generates Both Migrating Neurons and Glia. Cell Reports, 15(4), 774-786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2016.03.061
Bertet, C., Li, X., Erclik, T., Cavey, M., Wells, B., & Desplan, C. (2014). Temporal patterning of neuroblasts controls notch-mediated cell survival through regulation of hid or reaper. Cell, 158(5), 1173-1186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.07.045