Galli: Cell cycle regulation

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The Galli group studies cell-cycle control during development and tissue formation.

Over the course of evolution, organisms have developed variations in their cell cycle programs to be able to generate and maintain a plethora of different cell types and tissues.  Our lab uses a variety of model systems, such as the nematode C. elegans, as well as in vitro culture systems, to address fundamental questions in cell cycle control during development and tissue formation.

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Endomitosis controls tissue-specific gene expression during development.

van Rijnberk LM, Barrull-Mascaró R, […], Galli M

Plos Biology 20(5):e3001597

Download|2022

aPKC phosphorylates NuMA-related LIN-5 to position the mitotic spindle during asymmetric division.

Galli M, Muñoz J, Portegijs V, Boxem M, Grill SW, Heck AJ, van den Heuvel S

Nat Cell Biol. 13(9):1132-1138

Download|2011

Group leader

Matilde Galli

Matilde Galli is Hubrecht Fellow at the Hubrecht Institute. Her group studies how the cell cycle is controlled in different cell types within a multicellular organism. They use genetics, imaging and sequencing based approaches in C. elegans and mammalian systems to explore the establishment and function of various cell cycle programs. The group is particularly interested in understanding how different cell types respond to defects in cell division by activation of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC). Moreover, the Galli group studies cell cycles that lead to polyploidization, such as endoreplication and endomitosis, and how these cycles are regulated in normal physiology and in disease.   

Scientific training and positions


Group members

Matilde Galli

Group Leader

Rebecca Lippmann

Technician

Cindy Geerlings

PhD Student

Ramon Barrull Mascaró

PhD Student

Daniel Iglesias van Montfort

PhD Student

Sonia Veltkamp

PhD Student

Christa Jordan Ortiz

PhD Student

Sem Aslan

PhD Student

Tess de Kleijn

Student

Tiago Simplício

Student

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