Recent Publications:
Kiparaki, M. and Baker, N.E. (2023) Ribosomal protein mutations and cell competition: autonomous and nonautonomous effects on a stress response. Genetics 224: iyad080
Folgado-Marco, V., Ames, K., Chuen, J., Gritsman, K., and Baker, N.E. (2023) Haploinsufficiency of the essential gene RpS12 causes defects in erythropoiesis and hematopoietic stem cell maintenance. Elife 12:e69322.
Baker, N.E. and Montagna, C. (2022). Reducing the aneuploid cell burden – cell competition and the ribosome connection. Dis Model Mech 15: dmm049673.
Kumar, A. and Baker, N.E. (2022). The CRL4 E3 ligase Mahjong/DCAF1 controls cell competition through the transcription factor Xrp1, independently of polarity genes. Development 149: dev200795.
Kiparaki, M., Khan, C., Folgado Marco, V., Chuen, J., and Baker, N.E. (2022) The transcription factor Xrp1 orchestrates both reduced translation and cell competition upon defective ribosome assembly or function. Elife, 11: e71705.
Ji, Z., Chuen, J. Kipakai, M., and Baker, N.E. (2021) Cell competition removes segmental aneuploid cells from Drosophila imaginal disc-derived tissues based on ribosomal protein gene dose. Elife, 10:e61172.
Quiquand, M., Rimesso, G., Qiao, N., Suo, S., Zhou, C., Slattery, M., White, K.P., Han, J.J., and Baker, N.E. (2021) New regulators of Drosophila eye development identified from temporal transcriptome changes. Genetics, 217(4): iyab007
Baker, N.E. Emerging mechanisms of cell competition. (2020) Nature Reviews Genetics, 21; 683-697.
Blanco, J., Cooper, J.C., and Baker, N.E. (2020) Roles of C/EBP class bZip proteins in the growth and cell competition of Rp (“Minute”) mutants in Drosophila (2020). Elife, 9 9:e50535
Baker, N.E., Kiparaki, M., and Khan, C. (2019) A potential link between p53, cell competition and ribosomopathy in mammals and in Drosophila. Dev Biol 446: 17-19.
Ji, Z., Kiparaki, M., Folgado, V., Kumar, A., Blanco, J. Rimesso, G., Liu, Y., Zheng, D., and Baker, N.E. (2019) Drosophila RpS12 controls translation, growth, and cell competition through Xrp1. PLoS Genetics, 15(12):e1008513.
Wang, L.-H. and Baker, N.E. (2019) Salvador-Warts-Hippo pathway regulates sensory organ development via caspase-dependent non-apoptotic signaling. Cell Death & Disease 10 669.
Li, K. and Baker, N.E. (2019) Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of extra macrochaetae during Drosophila adult peripheral neurogenesis. Dev Biol 449: 41-51.