Aditya Saxena

I graduated from Beijing Agricultural University with a BA and a MSc. I started to work on Drosophila when I joined James Castelli-Gair as a research assistant in Cambridge. In James' lab I worked on morphogenesis of posterior spiracle and Drosophila jak/stat pathway receptor Domeless. After joining Helen's lab I have been working on a project to analyse the functions of Teashirt and its paralogue Tiptop during Mpt development.

Publications

Merabet, S., Castelli-Gair Hombria, J., Hu, N., Pradel, J. and Graba, Y. (2005) Hox-controlled reorganisation of intrasegmental patterning cues underlies Drosophila posterior spiracle organogenesis. Development 132: 3093-3102.

Brown, S., Hu, N. and Castelli-Gair Hombria, J. (2003) Novel level of signalling control in the JAK/STAT pathway revealed by in situ visualisation of protein-protein interaction during Drosophila development. Development 130:3077-3084.

Brown, S., Hu, N. and Castelli-Gair Hombria, J. (2001) Identification of the first invertebrate interleukin JAK/STAT receptor,the drosophila gene domeless. Current Biology 11: 1700-1705.

Hu, N. and Castelli-Gair, J. (1999) Study of the posterior spiracles of Drosophila as a model to understand the genetic and cellular mechanisms controlling morphogenesis. Developmental Biology 214: 197-210.