Priti Agarwal - Publications
PUBLICATIONS:
Research Articles
1. Landschaft-Berliner D, Goldstein K, Teichman G, Anava S, Gingold H, Rieger I, Levy N, Salzberg Y, Pechuk V, Agarwal Priti, Sagi D., Dror Cohen, Evelina Nikelshparg, Anat Ben-Zvi, Ronen Zaidel-Bar, Antonio Miranda Vizuete, Meital Oren-Suissa, Oded Rechavi. A Tunable and Druggable Mechanism to Delay Forgetting of Olfactory Memories in C. elegans. bioRxiv. 2024:2024-04.
2. Agarwal Priti #, Simon Berger, Tom Shemesh, Ronen Zaidel-Bar #. Active nuclear positioning and actomyosin contractility maintain leader cell integrity during gonadogenesis. Current Biology, 2024. June 3; 34(11): 2373-2386. #Corresponding author. (Highlighted in Current Biology Dispatch – “Organogenesis: How active forces maintain integrity of migrating cells under pressure”, 2024 July 22; 34(14): R693-R696).
3. Ray Shinjini *, Agarwal Priti *, Anat Nitzan, François Nédélec and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Actin capping protein regulates actomyosin contractility to maintain germline architecture in C. elegans Development, 2023 Mar 15;150(6):dev201099. *Equal contribution
4. Agarwal Priti, Tom Shemesh and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Directed cell invasion and asymmetric adhesion drive tissue elongation and turning in C. elegans gonad morphogenesis. Developmental Cell, 2022 Sep 12;57(17):2111-26. (Highlighted in Current Biology Dispatch – “Worm development: Push not pulling gonad morphogenesis”, 2022 Oct 10; 32(19): R1007-R1009).
5. Agarwal Priti, Hui Ting Ong, Yusuke Toyama, Anup Padmanabhan, Sabyasachi Dasgupta, Krajnc Matej and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Syncytial germline architecture is actively maintained by contraction of an internal actomyosin corset. Nature Communications, 2018 Nov.8; 9(1):4694.(Highlighted in MBI website: " Mechanics shaping the germline")
6. Agarwal Priti and Subramaniam K. PUF-8 functions redundantly with GLD-1 to promote the meiotic differentiation of spermatocytes in Caenorhabditis elegans. G3 (Bethesda), 2015 Jun 10; 5(8):1675-84.
7. Mainpal R, Agarwal Priti, Subramaniam K. PUF-8 suppresses the somatic transcription factor PAL-1 expression in C. elegans germline stem cells. Developmental Biology, 2011 Dec 1; 360(1):195-207.
Book Chapter, Review Articles, and Perspectives
1. Zaidel-Bar, Ronen#, and Priti Agarwal#. Outside influences: The impact of extracellular matrix mechanics on cell migration. Current topics in Developmental Biology, Online on 28 January 2025, #Corresponding author.
2. Agarwal Priti. In preprints: quantitative decoupling between regulatory modules safeguards phenotypic robustness. Development 2024 151 (3): dev202691. Perspective for the preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.21.568006v1 published by Nathan Goehring’s group at Francis Crick Institute, UK.
3. Agarwal Priti, Clotilde Cadart, Loic Fort, James Gahan, Leah Greenspan, Thomas Juan, Polina Kameneva, and Yuchuan Miao. “Pathway to Independence: the future of developmental biology”. Perspective. Development 2023 Oct 1;150(19).
4. Agarwal Priti and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Mechanosensing in embryogenesis. Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2021 Feb 1;68:1-9.
5. Agarwal Priti and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Diverse roles of non-muscle myosin II contractility in 3-dimensional cell migration. Essays in Biochemistry, 2019 Oct;63(5):497-508.
6. Agarwal Priti and Ronen Zaidel-Bar. Principles of actomyosin regulation in vivo*. Trends in Cell Biology, 2019 Feb 1;29(2):150-63. (Featured on the cover page of the issue).