Tissue Morphogenesis

Probing Regional Mechanical Properties of Embryonic Tissue Using Microindentation and Optical Coherence Tomography.- Hemodynamic Flow Visualization of Early Embryonic Great Vessels using mPIV.- Using Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy to Study Zebrafish Vascular Morphogenesis.- Micro/Nano-Computed Tomography Technology for Quantitative Dynamic, Multi-scale Imaging of Morphogenesis.- Imaging the Dorsal-Ventral Axis of Live and Fixed Drosophila Melanogaster Embryos.- Light-Sheet-Based Imaging and Analysis of Early Embryogenesis in the Fruit Fly.- Quantitative Image Analysis of Cell Behavior and Molecular Dynamics During Tissue Morphogenesis.- A Multiplex Fluorescent in situ Hybridization Protocol for Clonal Analysis of Drosophila Oogenesis.- Active Cell and ECM Movements During Development.- 3D Culture Assays of Murine Mammary Branching Morphogenesis and Epithelial Invasion.- Culture of Mouse Embryonic Foregut Explants.- Investigating human vascular tube morphogenesis and maturation using endothelial cell-pericyte co-cultures and a doxycycline-inducible genetic system in 3D extracellular matrices.- Three-Dimensional Traction Force Microscopy of Engineered Epithelial Tissues.- Probing Cell Mechanics with Sub-Cellular Laser Dissection of Actomyosin Networks in the Early Developing Drosophila Embryo.- UV Laser Ablation to Measure Cell and Tissue-Generated Forces in the Zebrafish Embryo in vivo and ex vivo.- Measurement of Intercellular Cohesion by Tissue Surface Tension.- Quail-Chick Chimeras and Eye Development.- Studying Epithelial Morphogenesis in Dictyostelium.- Primary Cell Cultures of Regenerating Holothurian Tissues.- Large-Scale Parameter Studies of Cell-Based Models of Tissue Morphogenesis Using CompuCell3D or Virtual Leaf.- Simulating Tissue Morphogenesis and Signaling.- Elasticity-Based Targeted Growth Models of Morphogenesis.