Pratima Pandey

The paper identifies the spatiotemporal coordination of WAVE and N-WASP with actin-bundling proteins to generate invasive protrusions during cell-cell fusion.

This study identifies branched actin polymerization as essential for myoblast fusion during skeletal muscle regeneration, showing its role in forming invasive protrusions for fusion.

This study shows that loss of dop-2 in C. elegans increases dopamine release and causes locomotory defects when exposed to ethanol.

This study identifies a noncanonical role for dynamin in cell-cell fusion by directly bundling actin filaments through GTPase-dependent interactions.