Dr Heather Verkade

Lecturer

Bsc (hons)
Ph D (University of Melbourne, Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute)
Telephone: +61-3-9905-4663
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: heather.verkade@sci.monash.edu.au

• Morphogenetic movements during zebrafish intestinal development
• Endodermal cell migration
• Cell polarity during cell movements

See the first 18 hours of zebrafish development

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Honours projects for prospective students

• Noël, E. S., Casal-Sueiro, A., Verkade, H., and Ober, E. A. Organ-specific requirements for Hdac1 in liver and pancreas formation.  (2008) Developmental Biology (Accepted)
• Mizoguchi, T., Verkade, H., Heath, J. K., Kuroiwa, A., Kikuchi, K.  Sdf1-Cxcr4 signaling controls endoderm cell migration in the zebrafish gastrula. (2008) Development 135:2521-2529
• Shin, C. H., Chung, W-S., Hong, S-K., Ober, E. A., Verkade, H.,  Field, H. A., Huisken, J., Stainier, D. Y. R. (2008) Multiple roles for med12 in endoderm development. Dev. Biol 317: 467-479
• Wilkins, S. J., Yoong, S., Verkade, H., Mizoguchi, T., Plowman, S. J., Hancock, J. F., Kikuchi, Y., Heath, J. K., Perkins, A. C. (2008) Mtx2 directs zebrafish morphogenetic movements during epiboly by regulating microfilament formation.  Dev. Biol 314 (1): 12-22
• Jin, S-W., Herzog, W., Santoro, M. M., Mitchell, T. S., Frantsve, J., Jungblut, B., Beis, D., Scott, I. C, D’Amico, L. A., Ober, E. A., Verkade, H., Field H.A., Chi, N., Wehman, A. M., Baier, H., and Stainier, D. Y. R.  (2007) A Transgene-Assisted Genetic Screen Identifies essential regulators of Vascular Development in Vertebrate Embryos. Dev. Biol 307 (1): 29-42
• Ober, E. A., Verkade, H., Field, H. A., Stainier. D., Y., R. (2006) Mesodermal Wnt2b signalling positively regulates liver specification. Nature 442(7103):688-91
  
• Beis, D., Bartman, T., Jin, S-W., Scott, I. C., D’Amico, L. A., Ober, E. A., Verkade, H., Frantsve, J., Field, H., Wehman, A., Baier, H., Tallafuss, A., Bally-Cuif, L., Chen, J-N., Stainier, D. Y. R., and Jungblut, B. (2005) Genetic and cellular analysis of zebrafish atrioventricular cushion and valve development. Development, 132, 4193-4204
• Kikuchi, Y., Verkade, H., Reiter, J. F., Kim, C. H., Chitnis, A. B., Kuroiwa, A., Stainier, D. R. (2004) Notch signalling can regulate endoderm formation in zebrafish. Dev Dyn., 299, 756 – 762
• Loosli, F., Staub, W., Finger-Baier, K. C., Ober, E. A., Verkade, H., Wittbrodt, J., Baier, H. (2003) Loss of eyes in zebrafish caused by mutations of chokh/rx3. EMBO Reports, 4, 894 - 899
• Reiter, J. F., Verkade, H,. Stainier, D. Y., (2001) Bmp2b and Oep promote early myocardial differentiation through their regulation of gata5. Devel. Biol., 234, 330-338