Selected Publications:

 Laue, K., Dejaut, S., Crump, J. G., Plaster, N., Roehl, H. H., Kimmel, C. B., Schneider, R. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2008). The multidomain protein Brpf1 binds histones and is required for hox gene expression and segmental identity. Development 135, 1935-1946

 Hammerschmidt, M. and Wedlich, D. (2008). Regulated adhesion as a driving force of gastrulation movements. Development 135, 3625-3641

 Laue, K., Jänicke, M., Plaster, N., Sonntag, C. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2008). Restriction of retinoic acid activity by Cyp26b1 is required for proper timing and patterning of osteogenesis during zebrafish development. Development 135, 3775-3787

 Jänicke, M., Carney, T. J. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2007). Foxi3 transcription factors and Notch signaling control the formation of skin ionocytes from epidermal precursors of the zebrafish embryo. Dev. Biol. 307, 258-271

 Carney, T. J., von der Hardt, S., Sonntag, C., Amsterdam, A., Topczewski, J., Hopkins, N. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2007). Inactivation of serine protease Matriptase1a by its inhibitor Hai1 is required for epithelial integrity of the zebrafish epidermis. Development 134, 3461-3471.

 von der Hardt, S., Bakkers, J., Inbal, A., Carvalho, L., Solnica-Krezel, L., Heisenberg, C.-P. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2007). The Bmp gradient of the zebrafish gastrula guides migrating lateral cells by regulating cell adhesion. Curr. Biol. 17, 475-487.

 Pogoda, H.-M., von der Hardt, S., Herzog, W., Kramer, C., Schwarz, H. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2006). The proneural gene ascl1a is required for endocrine differentiation and cell survival in the zebrafish adenohypophysis. Development 133, 1079-1089.

 Herzog, W., Sonntag. C., Roehl, H. H., Varga, Z. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2004). Fgf3 signaling from the ventral diencephalon is required for early specification and subsequent survival of the zebrafish adenohypo- physis. Development 131, 3681-3692.

 Nica, G., Herzog, W., Sonntag, C. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2004). Zebrafish pit1 mutants lack three pituitary cell types and develop severe dwarfism. Mol. Endocrinol. 18, 1196-1209.

 Bakkers, J., Kramer, C., Pothof, J., Quaedvlieg, N.E.M., Spaink, H.P. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2004). Hyaluronan synthase 2 (Has2) is required upstream of Rac1 to govern dorsal migration of lateral cells during zebrafish gastrulation. Development 131, 525-537.

 Bakkers, J., Hild, M., Kramer, C., Furutani-Seiki, M. and Hammerschmidt, M. (2002). Zebrafish ∆Np63 is a direct target of Bmp signaling and acts as a transcriptional repressor to block neural specification in the ventral ectoderm. Dev. Cell 2, 617-627.


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