Featured Publications

Tony Y.-C. Tsai, Mateusz Sikora, Peng Xia, Tugba Colak-Champollion, Holger Knaut, Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Sean G. Megason, “An adhesion code ensures robust pattern formation during tissue morphogenesis”, Science 2020 Oct 02: Vol. 370, Issue 6512, pp. 113-116

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[Research highlight in Harvard University News

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Tony Y.-C. Tsai, Rikki M. Garner, Sean G. Megason, “Adhesion-based self-organization in tissue patterning”, Annual Reviews of Cell and Developmental Biology 2022 Oct: Vol. 38

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Akankshi Munjal, Edouard Hannezo, Tony Y.-C. Tsai, Timothy J Mitchison, Sean G Megason, “Extracellular hyaluronate pressure shaped by cellular tethers drives tissue morphogenesis”, Cell 2021 Dec 22; 184(26):6313-6325.e18

Publications before 2020

Tony Y.-C. Tsai, Sean R. Collins, Caleb K. Chan, Pui-ying Lam, Amalia Hadjitheodorou, Sunny S. Lou, Hee Won Yang, Julianne Jorgensen, Felix Ellett, Daniel Irimia, Michael W. Davidson, Robert S. Fischer, Anna Huttenlocher, Tobias Meyer, James E. Ferrell, Jr., and Julie A. Theriot, “Efficient front-rear coupling in neutrophil chemotaxis by dynamic myosin II localization”, Developmental Cell 2019 Apr 22;49(2):189-205.e6

Tony Y.-C. Tsai*, Julie A. Theriot, James E. Ferrell, Jr., “Changes of oscillatory dynamics in the cell cycle of early Xenopus laevis embryos”, PLoS Biology 2014 Feb 11 12 (2): e1001788
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James E. Ferrell, Jr., Tony Y.-C. Tsai, Qiong Yang, “Modeling the cell cycle: Why do certain circuits oscillate?Cell 2011 Mar 18;144(6):874-85.

Tony Y.-C. Tsai†, Yoon Sup Choi, Wenzhe Ma, Joseph R. Pomerening, Chao Tang, James E. Ferrell, Jr., “Robust, tunable biological oscillations from interlinked positive and negative feedback loops”, Science2008 Jul 4;321(5885):126-9. co-first author

Wilson W. Wong, Tony Y.-C. Tsai, James C. Liao, “Single cell zeroth-order protein degradation enhances the robustness of synthetic oscillator”, Mol Syst Biol. 2007; 3: 130 (2007)