Publications

* Equal contribution
† Joint corresponding author

• Pushing the limits of automated cell tracking
  Nagarajan S., Naganathan S.R.
  Nature Methods (2025)
  
  

• Dissection of Zebrafish Craniofacial Tissues upon Staining with Alcian Blue
  Bhargava N.†, Naganathan S.R.†
  J. Vis. Exp. (223), e68900 (2025)
  
  

• Light Sheet Microscopy Imaging and Mounting Strategies for Early Zebrafish Embryos
  Nagarajan S.*, Bardhan S.*, Naganathan S.R.
  J. Vis. Exp. (209), e66735 (2024)
  
  

• An emerging role for tissue plasticity in developmental precision
  Naganathan S.R.
  Biochem. Soc. Trans., BST20230173 (2024)
  
  

• Cell-autonomous timing drives the vertebrate segmentation clock’s wave pattern
  Rohde L.A.*, Bercowsky-Rama A.*, Valentin G., Naganathan S.R., Desai R.A., Strnad P., Soroldoni D., Oates A.C.
  eLife 13:RP93764 (2024)
  
  

• Emergence of a left-right symmetric body plan in vertebrate embryos
  Bardhan S.*, Bhargava N.*, Dighe S.*, Vats N.*, Naganathan S.R.
  Curr. Top. Dev. Biol., 159, 310-342 (2024)
  
  

• Left-right symmetry of zebrafish embryos requires somite surface tension
  Naganathan S.R.†, Popovic M., Oates A.C.†
  Nature, 605, 516-521 (2022)
  
  

• Hand2 delineates mesothelium progenitors and is reactivated in mesothelioma
  Prummel K.D…Naganathan S.R…Mosimann C.
  Nat. Comms., 13:1677 (2022)
  
  

• Patterning and mechanics of somite boundaries in zebrafish embryos
  Naganathan S.R., Oates A.C.
  Semin. Cell Dev. Biol., 107:170-178 (2020)1
  
  

• Morphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex
  Naganathan S.R.†, Fürthauer S., Fievet B.T., Rodriguez J., Jülicher F., Ahringer J., Cannistraci C.V., Grill S.W.†
  eLife, 7:e37677 (2018)
  
  

• Mechanochemical pattern formation in the actomyosin cortex
  Nishikawa M., Naganathan S.R., Jülicher F., Grill S.W.
  Seibutsu Butsuri, 58:27-30 (2018) - Article in Japanese
  
  

• Asymmetric flows in the intercellular membrane during cytokinesis
  Menon V.V., Soumya S.S., Agarwal A., Naganathan S.R., Inamdar M.M., Sain A.
  Biophys. J., 113(12):2787-2795 (2017)
  
  

• Mechanochemical coupling and developmental pattern formation
  Naganathan S.R., Oates A.C.
  Curr. Opinion. Sys. Biol., 5:104-111 (2017)
  
  

• Highly-efficient guiding of motile microtubules on non-topographical motor patterns
  Reuther C., Mittasch M., Naganathan S.R., Grill S.W., Diez S.
  Nano Letters, 17(9):5699–5705 (2017)
  
  

• The sweetness of embryonic elongation and differentiation
  Naganathan S.R., Oates A.C.
  Dev. Cell, 40(4):323-324 (2017)
  
  

• Controlling contractile instabilities in the actomyosin cortex
  Nishikawa M., Naganathan S.R., Jülicher F., Grill S.W.
  eLife, 6:e19595 (2017)
  
  

• Actomyosin driven left-right asymmetry: from molecular torques to chiral self organization
  Naganathan S.R.*, Middelkoop T.*, Fürthauer S.*, Grill S.W.
  Curr. Opinion in Cell Biol., 38:24-30 (2016)
  
  

• Active torque generation by the actomyosin cell cortex drives left-right symmetry breaking
  Naganathan S.R., Fürthauer S., Nishikawa M., Jülicher F., Grill S.W.
  eLife, 3:e04165 (2014)
  
  

• Systematic genetic interaction screens uncover cell polarity regulators and functional redundancy
  Fievet B.T.*, Rodriguez J.*, Naganathan S.R., Lee C., Zeiser E., Ishidate T., Shirayama M., Grill S.W., Ahringer J.
  Nat. Cell Biol., 15:103-112 (2012)