ZFIN Person: Zigman, Mihaela

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-140626-4

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-140626-4

Zigman, Mihaela

Email:	mihaela.zigman@cos.uni-heidelberg.de
URL:	http://www.cos.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/m.zigman?l=_e
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Address:	Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), University of Heidelberg. Im Neuenheimer Feld 329 69120 Heidelberg Germany.
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cell polarity, growth control and tissue mechanics

Quantitative developmental and cell biology

PUBLICATIONS

Hüsken, U., Stickney, H.L., Gestri, G., Bianco, I.H., Faro, A., Young, R.M., Roussigne, M., Hawkins, T.A., Beretta, C.A., Brinkmann, I., Paolini, A., Jacinto, R., Albadri, S., Dreosti, E., Tsalavouta, M., Schwarz, Q., Cavodeassi, F., Barth, A.K., Wen, L., Zhang, B., Blader, P., Yaksi, E., Poggi, L., Zigman, M., Lin, S., Wilson, S.W., Carl, M. (2014) Tcf7l2 Is Required for Left-Right Asymmetric Differentiation of Habenular Neurons. Current biology : CB. 24(19):2217-27

Kumar, S., Zigman, M., Patel, T.R., Trageser, B., Gross, J.C., Rahm, K., Boutros, M., Gradl, D., Steinbeisser, H., Holstein, T., Stetefeld, J., and Özbek, S. (2014) Molecular dissection of Wnt3a-Frizzled8 interaction reveals essential and modulatory determinants of Wnt signaling activity. BMC Biology. 12:44

Zigman, M., Laumann-Lipp, N., Titus, T., Postlethwait, J., and Moens, C.B. (2014) Hoxb1b controls oriented cell division, cell shape and microtubule dynamics in neural tube morphogenesis. Development (Cambridge, England). 141(3):639-649

Scholpp, S., Poggi, L., and Zigman, M. (2013) Brain on the stage - spotlight on nervous system development in zebrafish: EMBO practical course, KIT, Sept. 2013. Neural Development. 8:23

Zigman, M., Trinh, L.A., Fraser, S.E., and Moens, C.B. (2011) Zebrafish Neural Tube Morphogenesis Requires Scribble-Dependent Oriented Cell Divisions. Current biology : CB. 21(1):79-86

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Zigman M, Cayouette M, Charalambous C, Schleiffer A, Hoeller O, Dunican D, McCudden CR, Firnberg N, Barres BA, Siderovski DP, Knoblich JA. Mammalian inscuteable regulates spindle orientation and cell fate in the developing retina. Neuron. 2005 Nov 23.  

Hutterer A, Berdnik D, Wirtz-Peitz F, Zigman M, Schleiffer A, Knoblich JA. Mitotic activation of the kinase Aurora-A requires its binding partner Bora. Dev. Cell, 2006 Aug.

Fraisl P, Forss-Petter S, Zigman M, Berger J. Murine bubblegum orthologue is a microsomal very long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase. Biochem J. 2004 Jan 1.

Weinhofer I, Forss-Petter S, Zigman M, Berger J. Cholesterol regulates ABCD2 expression: implications for the therapy of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2002 Oct 15.