Cowan Group Publications

Bienkowska, D., Cowan, CR. (2012). Centrosomes Can Initiate a Polarity Axis from Any Position within One-Cell C. elegans Embryos. Curr Biol. (abstract)

Bossinger, O., Cowan, CR. (2012). Methods in cell biology: analysis of cell polarity in C. elegans embryos. Methods Cell Biol. 107:207-38 (abstract)

Schenk, C., Bringmann, H., Hyman, AA., Cowan, CR. (2010). Cortical domain correction repositions the polarity boundary to match the cytokinesis furrow in C. elegans embryos. Development. 137(10):1743-53 (abstract)

Bringmann, H., Cowan, CR., Kong, J., Hyman, AA. (2007). LET-99, GOA-1/GPA-16, and GPR-1/2 are required for aster-positioned cytokinesis. Curr Biol. 17(2):185-91 (abstract)

Cowan, C. (2007). Ran and Rac in mouse eggs: cortical polarity and spindle positioning. Dev Cell. 12(2):174-6 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Hyman, AA. (2007). Acto-myosin reorganization and PAR polarity in C. elegans. Development. 134(6):1035-43 (abstract)

Scherthan, H., Wang, H., Adelfalk, C., White, EJ., Cowan, C., Cande, WZ., Kaback, DB. (2007). Chromosome mobility during meiotic prophase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(43):16934-9 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Hyman, AA. (2006). Cyclin E-Cdk2 temporally regulates centrosome assembly and establishment of polarity in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Nat Cell Biol. 8(12):1441-7 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Hyman, AA. (2004). Asymmetric cell division in C. elegans: cortical polarity and spindle positioning. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 20:427-53 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Hyman, AA. (2004). Centrosomes direct cell polarity independently of microtubule assembly in C. elegans embryos. Nature. 431(7004):92-6 (abstract)

Pelletier, L., Ozlü, N., Hannak, E., Cowan, C., Habermann, B., Ruer, M., Müller-Reichert, T., Hyman, AA. (2004). The Caenorhabditis elegans centrosomal protein SPD-2 is required for both pericentriolar material recruitment and centriole duplication. Curr Biol. 14(10):863-73 (abstract)

White, EJ., Cowan, C., Cande, WZ., Kaback, DB. (2004). In vivo analysis of synaptonemal complex formation during yeast meiosis. Genetics. 167(1):51-63 (abstract)

Carlton, PM., Cowan, CR., Cande, WZ. (2003). Directed motion of telomeres in the formation of the meiotic bouquet revealed by time course and simulation analysis. Mol Biol Cell. 14(7):2832-43 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Cande, WZ. (2002). Meiotic telomere clustering is inhibited by colchicine but does not require cytoplasmic microtubules. J Cell Sci. 115(Pt 19):3747-56 (abstract)

Cowan, CR., Carlton, PM., Cande, WZ. (2002). Reorganization and polarization of the meiotic bouquet-stage cell can be uncoupled from telomere clustering. J Cell Sci. 115(Pt 19):3757-66 (abstract)