*denotes equal contribution
Epithelial Reintegration and Architecture
Tara M. Finegan*, Michael W. Linhoff*, Hannah Rice, Sahel Ghasemzadeh, Zach Wright, Kathryn E. Neville, Tyler J. Wilson, Evan W. Ost, Nicholas Lowe, Adrian CM Dunivan, Oscar Mendoza Andrade, Christian M. Cammarota, Dan T. Bergstralh Fasciclin 2 Cooperates with Discs Large to Maintain Epithelial Architecture bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.24.727532
Christian Cammarota, Nicole S. Dawney, Phillip M. Bellomio, Maren Jüng, Alexander G. Fletcher, Tara M. Finegan, Dan T. Bergstralh. The Mechanical Influence of Densification on Initial Epithelial Architecture. (2024) PLOS Computational Biology 20(4): e1012001.
Tara M. Finegan, Christian Cammarota, Oscar Mendoza Andrade, Audrey M. Garoutte, Dan T. Bergstralh. Fas2[EB112]: A Tale of Two Chromosomes. (2024) G3 jkae047.
Nicole S. Dawney*, Christian Cammarota*, Qingyuan Jia, Alicia Shipley, Joseph A. Glichowski, Muskaan Vasandani, Tara M. Finegan, Dan T. Bergstralh. A novel tool for the unbiased characterization of epithelial monolayer development in culture. (2023) Mol Biol Cell 43(4):ar25.
Christian Cammarota*, Tara M. Finegan*, Tyler J. Wilson, Sifan Yang, Dan T. Bergstralh. An axon-pathfinding mechanism preserves epithelial tissue integrity. (2020) Current Biology 30(24) 5049-5057.
Dan T. Bergstralh*, Holly E. Lovegrove*, Daniel St Johnston. Lateral adhesion drives reintegration of misplaced cells into epithelial monolayers. (2015) Nature Cell Biology 17(11) 1497-1503.
Spindle Orientation
Alikhan Yeltokov, Tara M. Finegan, Alex G. Fletcher, Holly E. Lovegrove, Dan T. Bergstralh. Beyond pulling: microtubule pushing forces contribute to robust spindle orientation in regular and irregular cell shapes. bioRxiv, 2025.09. 22.677921
Tara M. Finegan, Kevin Deem, Ruiyue Tan, Nicholas Lowe, Nicholas Weeks, Michael W. Linhoff, Xuke Wang, Isabel Lopez-Molini, Anne Benraiss, Dan T. Bergstralh. Repurposing of the Drosophila Mud mitotic regulator for meiotic functions by alternative splicing (2025) cover articleGenetics 231(2), iyaf145
Kathryn E. Neville*, Tara M. Finegan*, Nicholas Lowe, Philip M. Bellomio, Daxiang Na, Dan T. Bergstralh. The Drosophila mitotic spindle orienting machinery requires activation, not just localization. (2023) EMBO Reports e56074
Emily A. Schiller, Dan T. Bergstralh. Interaction between Discs large and Pins/LGN/GPSM2: a comparison across species. (2021) Biol Open 10 (11): bio058982.
Tara M. Finegan, Daxiang Na, Christian Cammarota, Austin V. Skeeters, Tamás J. Nádasi, Nicole S. Dawney, Alexander G. Fletcher, Patrick W. Oakes, Dan T. Bergstralh. Tissue tension and not interphase cell shape determines cell division orientation in the Drosophila follicular epithelium. (2019) The EMBO Journal 38:e100072.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Holly E. Lovegrove, Izabela Kujawiak, Nicole S Dawney, Jinwei Zhu, Samantha Cooper, Rongguang Zhang, Daniel St Johnston. Pins is not required for spindle orientation in the Drosophila wing disc. (2016) Development Jul 15;143(14):2573-81.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Holly E. Lovegrove, and Daniel St Johnston. Discs large links spindle orientation to apical-basal polarity in Drosophila epithelia. (2013) Current Biology Sep 9;23(17):1707-1
Tools
Oscar Mendoza Andrade, Zach Wright, Sahel Ghasemzadeh, Dan T Bergstralh. Analysis of Transcripts in the Fly Cell Atlas Reveals Additional Cell Populations in the Drosophila melanogaster Ovary. (2025) microPublication Biology 001725.
Christian Cammarota, Dan T Bergstralh, Tara M Finegan. Automated Layer Analysis (ALAn): An Image Analysis Tool for the Unbiased Characterization of Mammalian Epithelial Architecture in Culture. (2024) Bio-protocol 14(8): e4971.
Reviews and Previews
Lindsay I Rathbun, Coralee A Everett, Dan T Bergstralh. Emerging Cnidarian Models for the Study of Epithelial Polarity. (2022) Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Apr 1;10:854373.
Tara M. Finegan and Dan T. Bergstralh. Neuronal immunoglobulin superfamily cell adhesion molecules in epithelial morphogenesis: insights from Drosophila. (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1809), 20190553.
Christian M. Cammarota and Dan T. Bergstralh. Cell Division: Interkinetic Nuclear… Mechanics. (2020) Current Biology Jul 6;30(13):R759-R761.
Tara M. Finegan and Dan T. Bergstralh. Division orientation: disentangling shape and mechanical forces. (2019) Cell Cycle 18 (11), 1187-1198.
Tyler J. Wilson and Dan T. Bergstralh. Cell reintegration: Stray epithelial cells make their way home. (2017) Bioessays 39 (6), 1600248.
Dan T. Bergstralh, Nicole S. Dawney, Daniel St Johnston. Spindle orientation: a question of complex positioning. (2017) Development 144 (7), 1137-1145.