ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-060808-6
Wright, Gavin J.
Email: gw2@sanger.ac.uk
URL: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Teams/Team30/
Affiliation: Wright Lab
Address: Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory The Morgan Building Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Cambridge, CB10 1HH United Kingdom
Country: United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1223 496852
Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am interested in gaining a greater understanding of how molecular
dialogues between cells within a vertebrate organism are initiated, and
in particular, how they control early developmental processes. My
research is therefore focussed on the interactions made by proteins
located at the cell surface - the site at which cells often receive
signals from their immediate environment. The laboratory has developed
high throughput techniques and resources to discover novel extracellular
receptor:ligand pairs with the ultimate aim of making a major
contribution to a genome-wide view of these signal-initiating events. To
understand the functional consequences of identified extracellular
interactions during early development, we use the popular model
vertebrate, the zebrafish.


PUBLICATIONS
Cayuso, J., Dzementsei, A., Fischer, J.C., Karemore, G., Caviglia, S., Bartholdson, J., Wright, G.J., Ober, E.A. (2016) EphrinB1/EphB3b Coordinate Bidirectional Epithelial-Mesenchymal Interactions Controlling Liver Morphogenesis and Laterality. Developmental Cell. 39:316-328
Panza, P., Sitko, A.A., Maischein, H.M., Koch, I., Flötenmeyer, M., Wright, G.J., Mandai, K., Mason, C.A., Söllner, C. (2015) The LRR receptor Islr2 is required for retinal axon routing at the vertebrate optic chiasm. Neural Development. 10:23
Staudt, N., Müller-Sienerth, N., Fane-Dremucheva, A., Yusaf, S.P., Millrine, D., Wright, G.J. (2015) A panel of recombinant monoclonal antibodies against zebrafish neural receptors and secreted proteins suitable for wholemount immunostaining. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 456(1):527-33
Buysse, K., Riemersma, M., Powell, G., van Reeuwijk, J., Chitayat, D., Roscioli, T., Kamsteeg, E.J., van den Elzen, C., van Beusekomm, E., Blaser, S., Babul-Hirji, R., Halliday, W., Wright, G.J., Stemple, D.L., Lin, Y.Y., Lefeber, D.J., and van Bokhoven, H. (2013) Missense mutations in beta-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 1 (B3GNT1) cause Walker-Warburg syndrome. Human molecular genetics. 22(9):1746-1754
Powell, G.T., and Wright, G.J. (2012) Do muscle founder cells exist in vertebrates?. Trends in cell biology. 22(8):391-396
Powell, G.T., and Wright, G.J. (2012) Genomic organisation, embryonic expression and biochemical interactions of the zebrafish junctional adhesion molecule family of receptors. PLoS One. 7(7):e40810
Powell, G.T., and Wright, G.J. (2011) Jamb and jamc are essential for vertebrate myocyte fusion. PLoS Biology. 9(12):e1001216
Wright, G.J., Giudicelli, F., Soza-Ried, C., Hanisch, A., Ariza-McNaughton, L., and Lewis, J. (2011) DeltaC and DeltaD interact as Notch ligands in the zebrafish segmentation clock. Development (Cambridge, England). 138:2947-2956
Wright, G.J., and Washbourne, P. (2011) Neurexins, Neuroligins and LRRTMs: synaptic adhesion getting fishy. Journal of neurochemistry. 117(5):765-778
Martin, S., Söllner, C., Charoensawan, V., Adryan, B., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Teichmann, S.A., and Wright, G.J. (2010) Construction of a large extracellular protein interaction network and its resolution by spatiotemporal expression profiling. Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP. 9(12):2654-2665
Charoensawan, V., Adryan, B., Martin, S., Söllner, C., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Wright, G.J., and Teichmann, S.A. (2010) The Impact of Gene Expression Regulation on Evolution of Extracellular Signaling Pathways. Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP. 9(12):2666-2677
Crosnier, C., Staudt, N., and Wright, G.J. (2010) A rapid and scalable method for selecting recombinant mouse monoclonal antibodies. BMC Biology. 8:76
O'Brien, G.S., Martin, S.M., Söllner, C., Wright, G.J., Becker, C.G., Portera-Cailliau, C., and Sagasti, A. (2009) Developmentally Regulated Impediments to Skin Reinnervation by Injured Peripheral Sensory Axon Terminals. Current biology : CB. 19(24):2086-2090
Söllner, C., and Wright, G.J. (2009) A cell surface interaction network of neural leucine-rich repeat receptors. Genome biology. 10(9):R99
Bushell, K.M., Söllner, C., Schuster-Boeckler, B., Bateman, A., and Wright, G.J. (2008) Large-scale screening for novel low-affinity extracellular protein interactions. Genome research. 18(4):622-630
Thisse, B., Wright, G.J., Thisse, C. (2008) Embryonic and Larval Expression Patterns from a Large Scale Screening for Novel Low Affinity Extracellular Protein Interactions. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
Bushell, K.M., Söllner, C., Schuster-Boeckler, B., Bateman, A., Wright, G.J., (2007) Submission of Data From a Large Scale Screening for Novel Low Affinity Extracellular Protein Interactions. ZFIN Direct Data Submission.
Giudicelli, F., Ozbudak, E.M., Wright, G.J., and Lewis, J. (2007) Setting the Tempo in Development: An Investigation of the Zebrafish Somite Clock Mechanism. PLoS Biology. 5(6):e150

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