Publications



Featured publications


Miao Y# & Pourquié O#. Cellular and molecular control of vertebrate somitogenesis. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2024). PMID: 38418851


Miao Y, Djeffal Y, De Simone A, Zhu K, Lee JG, Lu Z, Silberfeld A, Rao J, Tarazona OA, Mongera A, Rigoni P, Diaz-Cuadros M, Song L, Di Talia S, Pourquié O. Reconstruction and deconstruction of human somitogenesis in vitro. Nature (2023). PMID: 36543321



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  1. Liu Y, Kim Y, Xue X, Miao Y, Kobayashi N, Sun S, Yan Z, Yang Q, Pourquié O, Fu J. A human pluripotent stem cell-based somitogenesis model using microfluidics. Cell Stem Cell (2024). PMID: 38981471

  2. Miao Y & Pourquié O. Modeling human trunk development. Nature Biotechnology (2024). PMID: 37974011

  3. Miao Y & Pourquié O. Cellular and molecular control of vertebrate somitogenesis. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2024). *co-correspondence. PMID: 38418851

  4. Miao Y & Pourquié O. Mapping mouse axial progenitor dynamics in vitro. Developmental Cell (2024). PMID: 38889690

  5. Miao Y. In preprints: tick, tick, somite – an intrinsic timer regulates segmentation. Development (2024). PMID: 38293868

  6. Banerjee T, Matsuoka S, Biswas D, Miao Y, Pal D, Kamimura Y, Ueda M, Devreotes P, Iglesias P. A dynamic partitioning mechanism polarizes membrane protein distribution. Nature Communications (2023). PMID: 38036511

  7. Miao Y, Diaz-Cuadros M, Pourquié O. Modeling human paraxial mesoderm development with pluripotent stem cells. Methods in Molecular Biology (2023). PMID: 37843773

  8. Agarwal P, Cadart C, Fort L, Gahan J, Greenspan L, Juan T, Kameneva P, Miao Y. Pathway to Independence: the future of developmental biology. Development (2023). PMID: 37812057

  9. Yang Q, Miao Y, Banerjee P, Hourwitz M, Hu M, Qing Q, Iglesias P, Fourkas J, Losert W, Devreotes P. Nanotopography modulates intracellular excitable systems through cytoskeleton actuation. PNAS (2023). PMID: 37126708

  10. Miao Y, Djeffal Y, De Simone A, Zhu K, Lee JG, Lu Z, Silberfeld A, Rao J, Tarazona OA, Mongera A, Rigoni P, Diaz-Cuadros M, Song L, Di Talia S, Pourquié O. Reconstruction and deconstruction of human somitogenesis in vitro. Nature (2023). PMID: 36543321

  11. Banerjee T, Biswas D, Pal D, Miao Y, Iglesias P, Devreotes P. Spatiotemporal dynamics of membrane surface charge regulates cell polarity and migration. Nature Cell Biology (2022). PMID: 36202973

  12. Yang Q, Miao Y, Campanello L, Hourwitz M, Abubaker-Sharif B, Bull A, Devreotes P, Fourkas J, Losert W. Cortical waves mediate the cellular response to electric fields. eLife (2022). PMID: 35318938

  13. Ghabache E, Cao Y, Miao Y, Groisman A, Devreotes PN, Rappel WJ. Coupling traction force patterns and actomyosin wave dynamics reveals mechanics of cell motion. Molecular Systems Biology (2021). PMID: 34898015

  14. Bhattacharya S, Banerjee T, Miao Y, Zhan H, Devreotes P, Iglesias P. Traveling and standing waves mediate pattern formation in cellular protrusions. Science Advances (2020). PMID: 32821814

  15. Li X, Miao Y, Pal D, Devreotes P. Excitable networks controlling cell migration during development and disease. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology (2020). PMID: 31836289

  16. Cao Y, Ghabache E, Miao Y, Niman C, Hakozaki H, Reck-Peterson S, Devreotes P, Rappel W. A minimal computational model for three-dimensional cell migration. Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2019). PMID: 31847757

  17. Miao Y*, Bhattacharya S*, Banerjee T, Abubaker‐Sharif B, Long Y, Inoue T, Iglesias P, Devreotes P. Wave patterns organize cellular protrusions and control cortical dynamics. Molecular Systems Biology (2019). PMID: 30858181

  18. Pal DS, Li X, Banerjee T, Miao Y, Devreotes PN. The excitable signal transduction networks: movers and shapers of eukaryotic cell migration. The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2019). PMID: 31840779

  19. Devreotes P, Bhattacharya S, Edwards M, Iglesias P, Lampert T, Miao Y. Excitable Signal Transduction Networks in Directed Cell Migration. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology (2017). PMID: 28793794

  20. Miao Y, Bhattacharya S, Edwards M, Cai H, Inoue T, Iglesias P, Devreotes P. Altering the threshold of an excitable signal transduction network changes cell migratory modes. Nature Cell Biology (2017). PMID: 28346441


  • * denotes equal contribution.
  • # denotes co-correspondence.