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| S A NewmanSummaryAffiliation: New York Medical College Country: USA Publications
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Physico-genetic determinants in the evolution of developmentStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Science 338:217-9. 2012....
The brown adipocyte differentiation pathway in birds: an evolutionary road not takenNadejda V Mezentseva
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
BMC Biol 6:17. 2008....
A regulatory network of two galectins mediates the earliest steps of avian limb skeletal morphogenesisRamray Bhat
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
BMC Dev Biol 11:6. 2011..The formation of these condensations depends on cell-matrix and cell-cell interactions, but how they are initiated and patterned is as yet unresolved...
Phase transformations in a model mesenchymal tissueStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Phys Biol 1:100-9. 2004..Our studies provide a starting point for the analysis of phase transformations of more complex biomaterials including developing and healing tissues as well as tissue substitutes containing living cells...
Before programs: the physical origination of multicellular formsStuart A Newman
New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Int J Dev Biol 50:289-99. 2006..We suggest several ways in which organisms that were originally formed by predominantly physical mechanisms could have evolved genetic mechanisms to perpetuate their morphologies...
Genes and proteins: dogmas in declineStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Basic Science Building, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
J Biosci 32:1041-3. 2007
Activator-inhibitor dynamics of vertebrate limb pattern formationStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 81:305-19. 2007..Finally, we discuss how viewing development as an interplay between molecular-genetic and dynamic physical processes can provide new insight into the origin of congenital anomalies...
Dynamical patterning modules: physico-genetic determinants of morphological development and evolutionStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Phys Biol 5:015008. 2008....
Animal egg as evolutionary innovation: a solution to the "embryonic hourglass" puzzleStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 316:467-83. 2011..Finally, I describe how this new perspective provides a resolution to the embryonic hourglass puzzle...
Dynamical patterning modules: a "pattern language" for development and evolution of multicellular formStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, New York 10595, USA
Int J Dev Biol 53:693-705. 2009....
E.E. Just's "independent irritability" revisited: the activated egg as excitable soft matterStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Mol Reprod Dev 76:966-74. 2009..Lastly, the implications of these post-fertilization phenomena for animal evolution, a problem also addressed by Just, are discussed...
Cell state switching factors and dynamical patterning modules: complementary mediators of plasticity in development and evolutionStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
J Biosci 34:553-72. 2009..We also provide recently characterized examples of DTFs in cell type switching and DPMs in morphogenesis of avian limb bud mesenchyme, an embryo-derived tissue that retains a high degree of developmental plasticity...
Origination and innovation in the vertebrate limb skeleton: an epigenetic perspectiveStuart A Newman
New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 304:593-609. 2005..Morphological innovation may take place when such modulatory processes exceed a threshold defined by the dynamics of the skeletogenic system and elements are added or lost...
The pre-Mendelian, pre-Darwinian world: shifting relations between genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in early multicellular evolutionStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Basic Science Building, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
J Biosci 30:75-85. 2005..The notion that genes are privileged determinants of biological characters can only be sustained by neglecting questions of evolutionary origination and the evolution of developmental mechanisms...
Sticky fingers: Hox genes and cell adhesion in vertebrate limb developmentS A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595, USA
Bioessays 18:171-4. 1996..They misexpressed the product of the Hoxa-13 gene in chick limb buds and demonstrated both skeletal pattern perturbations and changes in cell-cell adhesivity in mesenchyme aberrantly expressing this protein...
Epigenetic mechanisms of character originationS A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595, USA
J Exp Zool 288:304-17. 2000..g., the burst of body plans in the early Cambrian, the origins of morphological innovation, homology, and rapid change of form. Our concept entails a new interpretation of the relationship between genes and biological form...
Developmental mechanisms: putting genes in their placeStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
J Biosci 27:97-104. 2002
Borrelia burgdorferi binds to, invades, and colonizes native type I collagen latticesMaria C Zambrano
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Basic Science Building, Valhalla, NY 10595-1690, USA
Infect Immun 72:3138-46. 2004..burgdorferi strains to intact collagen matrices permits replacement of the commonly used isotopic binding assay with visual fluorescent microscopic assays and will facilitate future studies of these interactions...
Ectodermal FGFs induce perinodular inhibition of limb chondrogenesis in vitro and in vivo via FGF receptor 2Marie Z Moftah
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Dev Biol 249:270-82. 2002....
Multiscale models for vertebrate limb developmentStuart A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York 10595, USA
Curr Top Dev Biol 81:311-40. 2008..Progress in devising computational methods for handling 3D, multiscale, multimodel simulations of organogenesis is discussed, as well as for simulating reaction-diffusion dynamics in domains of irregular shape...
Hidden in plain sight: Borrelia burgdorferi and the extracellular matrixFelipe C Cabello
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Trends Microbiol 15:350-4. 2007..burgdorferi with the extracellular matrix will be required before an understanding of the persistence of B. burgdorferi in the tissues and development of chronic infections can be achieved...
Is segmentation generic?S A Newman
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595
Bioessays 15:277-83. 1993....
cDNA cloning and spatiotemporal expression during avian embryogenesis of hnRNP A1, a regulatory factor in alternative splicingNatalie B Bronstein
Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA
Gene Expr Patterns 3:285-95. 2003..HnRNP A1 protein is expressed at sites of active neurogenesis in the developing central and peripheral nervous systems, regions of known extensive alternative splicing...
Patterns of mesenchymal condensation in a multiscale, discrete stochastic modelScott Christley
Department of Computer Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
PLoS Comput Biol 3:e76. 2007..The authors discuss these modes of pattern formation in relation to available experimental evidence for the in vitro system, as well as their implications for understanding limb skeletal patterning during embryonic development...
Dynamical mechanisms for skeletal pattern formation in the vertebrate limbH G E Hentschel
Department of Physics, Emory University, Maths Science Center, 400 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:1713-22. 2004....
Editorial: evolutionary innovation and morphological noveltyGerd B Muller
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 304:485-6. 2005
The innovation triad: an EvoDevo agendaGerd B Muller
Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, A 1090 Vienna
J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol 304:487-503. 2005....
Limb bud and flank mesoderm have distinct "physical phenotypes" that may contribute to limb buddingBrooke J Damon
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
Dev Biol 321:319-30. 2008....
Assembly of collagen matrices as a phase transition revealed by structural and rheologic studiesGabor Forgacs
Department of Physics and Biology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Biophys J 84:1272-80. 2003..7 and a critical loss angle being independent of frequency as predicted by percolation theory. Gelation of collagen thus represents a second order phase transition...
Mechanisms of pattern formation in development and evolutionIsaac Salazar-Ciudad
Developmental Biology Program, Institute of Biotechnology, PO Box 56, FIN 00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Development 130:2027-37. 2003....
The morphostatic limit for a model of skeletal pattern formation in the vertebrate limbMark Alber
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 4618, USA
Bull Math Biol 70:460-83. 2008..Lastly, we discuss the possible role in limb evolution of selection for increasingly morphostatic developmental mechanisms...
Stephen J GouldScott F Gilbert
J Biosci 27:445-63. 2002
Cell elongation is key to in silico replication of in vitro vasculogenesis and subsequent remodelingRoeland M H Merks
The Biocomplexity Institute, Department of Physics, Indiana University Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
Dev Biol 289:44-54. 2006..We validate our simulation results against HUVEC cultures using time-resolved image analysis and find that our simulations quantitatively reproduce in vitro vasculogenesis and subsequent in vitro remodeling...
Interplay between activator-inhibitor coupling and cell-matrix adhesion in a cellular automaton model for chondrogenic patterningMaria A Kiskowski
Department of Mathematics and Center for the Study of Biocomplexity, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5670, USA
Dev Biol 271:372-87. 2004..We discuss the applicability of this model to limb development in vivo and to other organ development...
A framework for three-dimensional simulation of morphogenesisTrevor M Cickovski
Laboratory for Computational Life Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 325 Cushing Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 2:273-88. 2005..Binaries and source code are available, along with documentation and input files for sample simulations, at http:// compucell.sourceforge.net...
Continuous macroscopic limit of a discrete stochastic model for interaction of living cellsMark Alber
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46656, USA
Phys Rev Lett 99:168102. 2007..A general multiscale approach is demonstrated by simulating spongy bone formation, suggesting that self-organizing physical mechanisms can account for this developmental process...
