Dorothea Godt, University of Toronto

Latest papers

The NEMP family supports metazoan fertility and nuclear envelope stiffness.
Science advances · 2020
Integration of Migratory Cells into a New Site In Vivo Requires Channel-Independent Functions of Innexins on Microtubules.
Developmental cell · 2020
Specification and spatial arrangement of cells in the germline stem cell niche of the Drosophila ovary depend on the Maf transcription factor Traffic jam.
PLoS genetics · 2017 · senior author

All 11 publications

Latest funding

Genetic mechanisms of differentiation and morphogenesis
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$204,000
Genetic Regulation of Differentiation and Morphogenesis
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
$140,000
Gel documentation system for multi-user facility
NSERC · 2012 · Co-investigator
$16,090

All 23 grants and awards

11 publications.

01

The NEMP family supports metazoan fertility and nuclear envelope stiffness.

Tsatskis Y, Rosenfeld R, Pearson JD, Boswell C, Qu Y, Kim K, Fabian L, Mohammad A, Wang X, Robson MI, Krchma K, Wu J, Gonçalves J, Hodzic D, Wu S, Potter D, Pelletier L, Dunham WH, Gingras AC, Sun Y, Meng J, Godt D, Schedl T, Ciruna B, Choi K, Perry JRB, Bremner R, Schirmer EC, Brill JA, Jurisicova A, McNeill H

Science advances2020

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb4591 PMID: 32923640

02

Integration of Migratory Cells into a New Site In Vivo Requires Channel-Independent Functions of Innexins on Microtubules.

Miao G, Godt D, Montell DJ

Developmental cell2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.024 PMID: 32668209

03

Specification and spatial arrangement of cells in the germline stem cell niche of the Drosophila ovary depend on the Maf transcription factor Traffic jam.

Panchal T, Chen X, Alchits E, Oh Y, Poon J, Kouptsova J, Laski FA, Godt D

PLoS genetics2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006790 PMID: 28542174

04

The E3 ligase Ubr3 regulates Usher syndrome and MYH9 disorder proteins in the auditory organs of Drosophila and mammals.

Li T, Giagtzoglou N, Eberl DF, Jaiswal SN, Cai T, Godt D, Groves AK, Bellen HJ

eLife2016

DOI: 10.7554/elife.15258 PMID: 27331610

05

Loss of SPARC dysregulates basal lamina assembly to disrupt larval fat body homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.

Shahab J, Baratta C, Scuric B, Godt D, Venken KJ, Ringuette MJ

Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists2015

DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.24243 PMID: 25529377

06

Myosin VIIA regulates microvillus morphogenesis and interacts with cadherin Cad99C in Drosophila oogenesis.

Glowinski C, Liu RH, Chen X, Darabie A, Godt D

Journal of cell science2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1242/jcs.099242 PMID: 25236597

07

The Maf factor Traffic jam both enables and inhibits collective cell migration in Drosophila oogenesis.

Gunawan F, Arandjelovic M, Godt D

Development (Cambridge, England)2013Senior author

DOI: 10.1242/dev.089896 PMID: 23720044

08

Mutational analysis supports a core role for Drosophila α-catenin in adherens junction function.

Sarpal R, Pellikka M, Patel RR, Hui FY, Godt D, Tepass U

Journal of cell science2012

DOI: 10.1242/jcs.096644 PMID: 22266901

09

The germline stem cells of Drosophila melanogaster partition DNA non-randomly.

Karpowicz P, Pellikka M, Chea E, Godt D, Tepass U, van der Kooy D

European journal of cell biology2009

DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2009.03.001 PMID: 19395121

10

Cell dynamics and developmental bias in the ontogeny of a complex sexually dimorphic trait in Drosophila melanogaster.

Atallah J, Liu NH, Dennis P, Hon A, Godt D, Larsen EW

Evolution & development2009

DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142x.2009.00319.x PMID: 19245550

Genetic mechanisms of differentiation and morphogenesis

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Godt, Dorothea

$204,000

Genetic Regulation of Differentiation and Morphogenesis

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Godt, Dorothea

$140,000

Gel documentation system for multi-user facility

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Bruce, Ashley

$16,090

Laser replacements and upgrades for a multi-user spinning disk confocal microscope

Co-investigatorNSERC2011Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Harris, Tony

$92,523

High-speed centrifuge for multi-user molecular core facility

Principal investigatorNSERC2009Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Godt, Dorothea

$36,711

Spectrophotometers for multi-user molecular core facility: Quantification of DNA, RNA and protein

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Godt, Dorothea

$23,787

Genetic regulation of morphogenesis

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Godt, Dorothea

$175,000

Multi-user imaging facility: upgrades for transmision electron microsopy

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Tepass, Ulrich

$98,392

Tissue culture facility expansion

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Varmuza, Susannah

$24,000

Ultramicrotome for multi-user microscopy facility

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Tepass, Ulrich

$58,583

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute
Cell and Systems Biology
Department of Molecular Genetics
Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Ulrich Tepass

Cell and Systems Biology

3 shared papers, latest 2012

Xi Chen

Bilingual Education, Second Language Education

2 shared papers, latest 2017

Laurence Pelletier

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Anne-Claude Gingras

Department of Molecular Genetics

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Andrea Jurisicova

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Helen McNeill

Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Yu Sun

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Brian Ciruna

Developmental and Stem Cell Biology

1 shared papers, latest 2020

Derek van der Kooy

Department of Molecular Genetics

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Rod Bremner

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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Latest papers

Latest funding

The NEMP family supports metazoan fertility and nuclear envelope stiffness.

Integration of Migratory Cells into a New Site In&#xa0;Vivo Requires Channel-Independent Functions of Innexins on Microtubules.

Specification and spatial arrangement of cells in the germline stem cell niche of the Drosophila ovary depend on the Maf transcription factor Traffic jam.

The E3 ligase Ubr3 regulates Usher syndrome and MYH9 disorder proteins in the auditory organs of Drosophila and mammals.

Loss of SPARC dysregulates basal lamina assembly to disrupt larval fat body homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster.

Myosin VIIA regulates microvillus morphogenesis and interacts with cadherin Cad99C in Drosophila oogenesis.

The Maf factor Traffic jam both enables and inhibits collective cell migration in Drosophila oogenesis.

Mutational analysis supports a core role for Drosophila &#x3b1;-catenin in adherens junction function.

The germline stem cells of Drosophila melanogaster partition DNA non-randomly.

Cell dynamics and developmental bias in the ontogeny of a complex sexually dimorphic trait in Drosophila melanogaster.

Genetic mechanisms of differentiation and morphogenesis

Genetic Regulation of Differentiation and Morphogenesis

Gel documentation system for multi-user facility

Laser replacements and upgrades for a multi-user spinning disk confocal microscope

High-speed centrifuge for multi-user molecular core facility

Spectrophotometers for multi-user molecular core facility: Quantification of DNA, RNA and protein

Genetic regulation of morphogenesis

Multi-user imaging facility: upgrades for transmision electron microsopy

Tissue culture facility expansion

Ultramicrotome for multi-user microscopy facility

Frequent collaborators

Ulrich Tepass

Xi Chen

Laurence Pelletier

Anne-Claude Gingras

Andrea Jurisicova

Helen McNeill

Yu Sun

Brian Ciruna

Derek van der Kooy

Rod Bremner

Integration of Migratory Cells into a New Site In Vivo Requires Channel-Independent Functions of Innexins on Microtubules.

Mutational analysis supports a core role for Drosophila α-catenin in adherens junction function.