Margot E. Quinlan

This study identifies an intracellular role for Semaphorin-2a in Drosophila oogenesis by inhibiting Cappuccino-mediated actin polymerization and affecting oskar mRNA localization.

This paper develops a computational model of formin FH1 domain dynamics to study how N-terminal dimerization affects actin polymerization rates and cytoskeletal assembly.

The paper shows Spire promotes dendrite branching by linking actin polymerization to endosomal trafficking in Drosophila neurons.

This study shows that FHOD3L's actin elongation activity, not nucleation or bundling, is essential for sarcomere formation in cardiomyocytes.

The paper investigates the role of Drosophila formin Cappuccino in oocyte organization by altering its localization and observing effects on mRNA anchoring and fertility.

The paper investigates how tail domains in formins regulate actin assembly through alternative splicing, showing that some tails inhibit processive elongation while others enhance it.