ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-050628-2
Cavodeassi, Florencia
Email: fcavodeassi@cbm.csic.es
URL: http://web4.cbm.uam.es/joomla-rl/index.php/en/scientific-departments/developmet-and-differentiation?id=%20431
Affiliation: Bovolenta Lab
Address: Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa (CSIC-UAM) C/Nicolas Cabrera, 1 Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 28049, Madrid Spain
Country: Spain
Phone: 34-911964719
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ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4609-6258


BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS


PUBLICATIONS
Truchado-García, M., Perry, K.J., Cavodeassi, F., Kenny, N.J., Henry, J.Q., Grande, C. (2022) A small change with a twist ending - a single residue in EGF-CFC drives Bilaterian asymmetry. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(2)
Hernández-Bejarano, M., Gestri, G., Monfries, C., Tucker, L., Dragomir, E.I., Bianco, I.H., Bovolenta, P., Wilson, S.W., Cavodeassi, F. (2022) Foxd1-dependent induction of a temporal retinal character is required for visual function. Development (Cambridge, England). 149(24):
Moreno-Mármol, T., Ledesma-Terrón, M., Tabanera, N., Martin-Bermejo, M.J., Cardozo, M.J., Cavodeassi, F., Bovolenta, P. (2021) Stretching of the retinal pigment epithelium contributes to zebrafish optic cup morphogenesis. eLIFE. 10:
Varga, M., Csályi, K., Bertyák, I., Menyhárd, D.K., Poole, R.J., Cerveny, K.L., Kövesdi, D., Barátki, B., Rouse, H., Vad, Z., Hawkins, T.A., Stickney, H.L., Cavodeassi, F., Schwarz, Q., Young, R.M., Wilson, S.W. (2020) Tissue-Specific Requirement for the GINS Complex During Zebrafish Development. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 8:373
Cavodeassi, F., Wilson, S.W. (2019) Looking to the future of zebrafish as a model to understand the genetic basis of eye disease. Human genetics. 138(8-9):993-1000
Young, R.M., Hawkins, T.A., Cavodeassi, F., Stickney, H.L., Schwarz, Q., Lawrence, L.M., Wierzbicki, C., Cheng, B.Y., Luo, J., Ambrosio, E.M., Klosner, A., Sealy, I.M., Rowell, J., Trivedi, C.A., Bianco, I.H., Allende, M.L., Busch-Nentwich, E.M., Gestri, G., Wilson, S.W. (2019) Compensatory growth renders Tcf7l1a dispensable for eye formation despite its requirement in eye field specification. eLIFE. 8:
Moreno-Marmol, T., Cavodeassi, F., Bovolenta, P. (2018) Setting Eyes on the Retinal Pigment Epithelium. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology. 6:145
Gómez-Gálvez, P., Vicente-Munuera, P., Tagua, A., Forja, C., Castro, A.M., Letrán, M., Valencia-Expósito, A., Grima, C., Bermúdez-Gallardo, M., Serrano-Pérez-Higueras, Ó., Cavodeassi, F., Sotillos, S., Martín-Bermudo, M.D., Márquez, A., Buceta, J., Escudero, L.M. (2018) Scutoids are a geometrical solution to three-dimensional packing of epithelia. Nature communications. 9:2960
Cavodeassi, F. (2018) Dynamic Tissue Rearrangements during Vertebrate Eye Morphogenesis: Insights from Fish Models. Journal of developmental biology. 6(1)
Valdivia, L.E., Lamb, D.B., Horner, W., Wierzbicki, C., Tafessu, A., Williams, A.M., Gestri, G., Krasnow, A.M., Vleeshouwer-Neumann, T.S., Givens, M., Young, R.M., Lawrence, L.M., Stickney, H.L., Hawkins, T.A., Schwarz, Q.P., Cavodeassi, F., Wilson, S.W., Cerveny, K.L. (2016) Antagonism between Gdf6a and retinoic acid pathways controls timing of retinal neurogenesis and growth of the eye in zebrafish. Development (Cambridge, England). 143(7):1087-98
Hernández-Bejarano, M., Gestri, G., Spawls, L., Nieto-López, F., Picker, A., Tada, M., Brand, M., Bovolenta, P., Wilson, S.W., Cavodeassi, F. (2015) Opposing Shh and Fgf signals initiate nasotemporal patterning of the retina. Development (Cambridge, England). 142(22):3933-42
Hüsken, U., Stickney, H.L., Gestri, G., Bianco, I.H., Faro, A., Young, R.M., Roussigne, M., Hawkins, T.A., Beretta, C.A., Brinkmann, I., Paolini, A., Jacinto, R., Albadri, S., Dreosti, E., Tsalavouta, M., Schwarz, Q., Cavodeassi, F., Barth, A.K., Wen, L., Zhang, B., Blader, P., Yaksi, E., Poggi, L., Zigman, M., Lin, S., Wilson, S.W., Carl, M. (2014) Tcf7l2 Is Required for Left-Right Asymmetric Differentiation of Habenular Neurons. Current biology : CB. 24(19):2217-27
Cavodeassi, F. (2014) Integration of anterior neural plate patterning and morphogenesis by the Wnt signaling pathway. Developmental Neurobiology. 74(8):759-71
Ivanovitch, K., Cavodeassi, F., and Wilson, S.W. (2013) Precocious acquisition of neuroepithelial character in the eye field underlies the onset of eye morphogenesis. Developmental Cell. 27(3):293-305
Cavodeassi, F., Ivanovitch, K., and Wilson, S.W. (2013) Eph/Ephrin signalling maintains eye field segregation from adjacent neural plate territories during forebrain morphogenesis. Development (Cambridge, England). 140(20):4193-4202
Schmidt, K., Cavodeassi, F., Feng, Y., and Stephens, D.J. (2013) Early stages of retinal development depend on Sec13 function. Biology Open. 2(3):256-266
Cavodeassi, F., Bene, F.D., Fürthauer, M., Grabher, C., Herzog, W., Lehtonen, S., Linker, C., Mercader, N., Mikut, R., Norton, W., Strähle, U., Tiso, N., and Foulkes, N.S. (2013) Report of the Second European Zebrafish Principal Investigator Meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, March 21-24, 2012. Zebrafish. 10(1):119-23
Cavodeassi, F., and Houart, C. (2012) Brain regionalisation: Of signalling centres and boundaries. Developmental Neurobiology. 72(3):218-233
Valdivia, L.E., Young, R.M., Hawkins, T.A., Stickney, H.L., Cavodeassi, F., Schwarz, Q., Pullin, L.M., Villegas, R., Moro, E., Argenton, F., Allende, M.L., and Wilson, S.W. (2011) Lef1-dependent Wnt/β-catenin signalling drives the proliferative engine that maintains tissue homeostasis during lateral line development. Development (Cambridge, England). 138(18):3931-3941
Cerveny, K.L., Cavodeassi, F., Turner, K.J., de Jong-Curtain, T.A., Heath, J.K., and Wilson, S.W. (2010) The zebrafish flotte lotte mutant reveals that the local retinal environment promotes the differentiation of proliferating precursors emerging from their stem cell niche. Development (Cambridge, England). 137(13):2107-2115
Picker, A., Cavodeassi, F., Machate, A., Bernauer, S., Hans, S., Abe, G., Kawakami, K., Wilson, S.W., and Brand, M. (2009) Dynamic coupling of pattern formation and morphogenesis in the developing vertebrate retina. PLoS Biology. 7(10):e1000214
Hawkins, T.A., Cavodeassi, F., Erdelyi, F., Szabo, G., and Lele, Z. (2008) The small molecule Mek1/2 inhibitor U0126 disrupts the chordamesoderm to notochord transition in zebrafish. BMC Developmental Biology. 8(1):42
Cavodeassi, F., Carreira-Barbosa, F., Young, R., Concha, M., Allende, M.L., Houart, C., Tada, M., and Wilson, S. (2005) Early Stages of Zebrafish Eye Formation Require the Coordinated Activity of Wnt11, Fz5, and the Wnt/Catenin Pathway. Neuron. 47(1):43-56

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