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Research and Publications
Our research has been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Volkswagenstiftung, the Thyssen-Stiftung, EMBO, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds (BIF), Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). We have participated in several collaborative research concortia, including DFG/SPP2493 “Heterotypic cell junctions”, DFG/SPP1782 “Epithelial junctions”, DFG/SPP1464 “Dynamics and function of actin nucleator complexes”, DFG/FOR1756 “Functional dynamics of cell contacts”, DFG/GRK2213 “Membrane plasticity”, VW/CIDBN Göttingen “Big Data/Deep learning techniques…”.
Selected recent publications
Richa P, Häring M, Wang Q, Choudhury AR, Göpfert MC, Wolf F, Großhans J, Kong D. Synchronization in epithelial tissue morphogenesis. Curr Biol. 2025. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.066
Häring M, Wolf F, Großhans J, Kong D. Morphogenesis: Unstable rods and how genetics tames them. Curr Biol. 33:R873-R875. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.007.
L Long, HS Beati, J Heras Chanes, F di Pietro, Y Bellaiche, HA Müller, J Großhans. Kinesin-1 patterns Par-1 and Rho signaling at the cortex of syncytial embryos of Drosophila. J Cell Biol (2023) doi: 10.1083/jcb.202206013
A Schmidt, J Großhans. Dynamics of cortical domains in early Drosophila development, J Cell Sci 131 (2018) jcs212795, doi:10.1242/jcs.212795
D Kong, F Wolf, J Großhans. Forces directing germ-band extension in Drosophila embryo (review). Mech Dev 144 (2017) 11–22, doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2016.12.001