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Dr. 
Vernon Twombly

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Twombly

Developmental signaling in Drosophila
 
Lecturer
 
Dr. Twombly received his Ph.D. in 1995 with William Gelbart at Harvard University, performed his postdoctoral studies with Connie L. Cepko at the Harvard Medical School and Gerard Campbell at the University of Pittsburgh, and joined the Department in 2005.

Currently, Dr. Twombly is not accepting graduate students in his laboratory. Dr. Twombly is accepting undergraduate researchers, and does sponsor students in other laboratories.

Professional Interests - Publications - Contact Information - Lab Personnel

Professional Interests of Vernon Twombly


Publication Archive
8 Citations
7 Abstracts
7 PDFs

Recent Publications of Vernon Twombly

Singer, M.A., A. Penton, V. Twombly, F.M. Hoffmann, and W.M. Gelbart (1997) Signaling through both type I DPP receptors is required for anterior-posterior patterning of the entire Drosophila wing. Development 124:79-89 (PDF Reprint: 639 kb)

Dobens, L.L., T. Hsu, V. Twombly, W.M. Gelbart, L.A. Raftery, and F.C. Kafatos (1997) The Drosophila bunched gene is a homologue of the growth factor stimulated mammalian TSC-22 sequence and is required during oogenesis. Mech. Develop. 65:197-208 (PDF Reprint: 6.3 MB)

Kengaku, M., V. Twombly, and C. Tabin (1997) Expression of Wnt and Frizzled genes during chick limb bud development. Cold Spring Harb. Sym. 62:421-429

Twombly, V., R.K. Blackman, H. Jin, J.M. Graff, R.W. Padgett, and W.M. Gelbart (1996) The TGF- (PDF Reprint: 742 kb)

Raftery, L.A., V. Twombly, K. Wharton, and W.M. Gelbart (1995) Genetic screens to identify elements of the decapentaplegic signaling pathway in Drosophila. Genetics 139:241-254 (PDF Reprint: 4.4 MB)

Letsou, A., K. Arora, J.L. Wrana, K. Simin, V. Twombly, J. Jamal, K. Staehling-Hampton, F.M. Hoffmann, W.M. Gelbart, J. Massagué, and M. O'Connor (1995) Drosophila Dpp signaling is mediated by the punt gene product: a dual ligand-binding type II receptor of the TGF- (PDF Reprint: 3.9 MB)

Brummel, T.J., V. Twombly, G. Marques, J.L. Wrana, S.J. Newfeld, L. Attisano, J. Massagué, M.B. O'Connor, and W.M. Gelbart (1994) Characterization and relationship of Dpp receptors encoded by the saxophone and thick veins genes in Drosophila. Cell 78:251-261 (PDF Reprint: 7.5 MB)


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