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Björn Perder

Weill Cornell Medicine

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Organism:zebrafish· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Jingli CaoiD· 3 shared Miaoyan Qiu· 3 shared Yu XiaiD· 3 shared Alvin Gea Chen Yao· 2 shared Doron BeteliD· 2 shared Paul ZumboiD· 2 shared Avi Yakubov· 1 shared Friederike DündariD· 1 shared

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Developmental BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedAug 20, 2026

Hypoxia-activated scleraxis a mediates epicardial progenitor differentiation into a unique cardiac perivascular cell type

Björn Perder, Yu Xia, Jun Yao…·Jingli Cao

This study identifies Scleraxis a as a key regulator of epicardial progenitor differentiation into a unique cardiac perivascular cell type in zebrafish, revealing a hypoxia-responsive pathway involved in coronary vessel development.

DOI 10.1038/s41467-026-77008-y

zebrafishbulk RNA-seq

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Cell BiologyScientific ReportsPeer-reviewedMar 10, 2026

Zebrafish otic vesicle and mouse epididymis as model systems for studying columnar epithelial cell division

Yu Xia, Björn Perder, Alvin Gea Chen Yao…·Jingli Cao

The paper uses zebrafish otic vesicles and mouse epididymis to study columnar epithelial cell division dynamics, revealing conserved and species-specific mechanisms of nuclear migration and division.

DOI 10.1038/s41598-026-42729-z

zebrafishmouse

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 26, 2022

Activation of an injury-associated transient progenitor state in the epicardium is required for zebrafish heart regeneration

Yu Xia, Sierra Duca, Björn Perder…·Jingli Cao

The paper identifies a transient epicardial progenitor cell population in zebrafish that is essential for heart regeneration through single-cell RNA sequencing and functional analysis.

DOI 10.1101/2022.10.26.513031

zebrafishscRNA-seq

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