Gu L., Sauceda R., Brar J., Fessahaye F., Joo M., Lee J., Nguyen J., Teng M., and Weng M. (2024) A novel protein Moat prevents ectopic epithelial folding by limiting Bazooka/Par3-dependent adherens junctions. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 35:8
Jiao Y., Gu L., Jiang Y., Weng M.*, Yang M.* (2022), Digitally Predicting Protein Localization and Manipulating Protein Activity in Fluorescence Images Using Four-dimensional Reslicing GAN. Bioinformatics, Vol. 39(1), btac719. * corresponding authors
Lingkun Gu, Weng M*. (2020) Live imaging of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in mesoderm cells of gastrulating Drosophila embryos. The Epithelial-to Mesenchymal Transition: Methods and Protocols, Methods Mol Biol. Vol.2179, doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0779-4_8
Jiao Y., Weng M., Yang M. (2019). Multi-Object portion tracking in 4D fluorescence microscopy imagery with deep feature maps. 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2019, pp. 1087-1096, doi: 10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00142.
Weng M., Wieschaus E.F. (2017) Polarity protein Par3/Bazooza follows myosin-dependent junction repositioning. Dev. Biol. 422(2): 125–134. download
Weng M., Wieschaus E.F. (2016) Myosin-dependent remodeling of adherens junctions protects junctions from Snail-dependent disassembly, J. Cell Biol. 212:2:219 (Recommended by F1000Prime)
Comment in: Simoes S., Tepass U. (2016) Muscle versus Snail: Muscle wins, J. Cell Biol. 212:2:139 download
Weng M., Haenfler J., Lee C.-Y. (2011) Changes in Notch signaling coordinates maintenance and differentiation of the Drosophila larval optic lobe neuroepithelia, Dev Neurobiol. doi:10.1002/dneu.20995. [Epub ahead of print]
Weng M., Golden K.L., Lee C.-Y. (2010) Dfezf/Earmuff maintains the restricted developmental potential of intermediate neural progenitors in Drosophila, Dev Cell, 18:1-11 (Recommended by F1000Prime)
Xue L.X., Weng M., Zhang Z., Tong T. (2007) Optimization of reporter gene assay: several factors influencing detection of promoter activity. Chin. Med. J. (Engl). 120:965-9
*Wu J., *Xue L.X., Weng M., Sun Y., Zhang Z., Wang W., Tong T. (2007) Sp1 is essential for p16 expression in human diploid fibroblasts during senescence. PLoS ONE. 2:e164 (*authors contributed equally)
