Margaret (Maggie) De Cuevas, Ph.D.
Position Title:
Research Associate
410-502-0013
Department of Cell Biology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
725 N. Wolfe Street, G1 Hunterian
Baltimore, MD 21205
Research Interest:
Stem cell regulation in Drosophila
Associated Faculty:
Selected Publications:
Ma Q, de Cuevas M, Matunis EL. 2016. Chinmo is sufficient to induce male fate in somatic cells of the adult Drosophila ovary. Development Mar 1;143(5):754-63. doi: 10.1242/dev.129627. Epub 2016 Jan 25.
Ma Q, de Cuevas M, Matunis EL. Chinmo is sufficient to induce male fate in somatic cells of the adult Drosophila ovary. Development. 2016 Mar 1;143(5):754-63. doi: 10.1242/dev.129627.
Greenspan LJ, de Cuevas M, Matunis E. Genetics of gonadal stem cell renewal. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2015;31:291-315. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-100913-013344.
Hetie, P., de Cuevas, M. and Matunis, E. 2014. Conversion of Quiescent Niche Cells to Somatic Stem Cells Causes Ectopic Niche Formation in the Drosophila Testis. Cell Reports 7, 715-721.
Matunis EL, Stine RR, de Cuevas M. 2012. Recent advances in Drosophila male germline stem cell biology. Spermatogenesis 2: 137-144. PMID: 23087833.
de Cuevas, M., Matunis, E. L. 2011. The stem cell niche: Lessons from the Drosophila testis. Development 14:2861-2969.
Issigonis, M., Tulina, N., de Cuevas, M., Brawley, C., Sandler, L., Matunis, E. 2009. JAK-STAT signal inhibition regulates competition within the Drosophila testis stem cell niche. Science 326:153-6.
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