Publications
Research articles
Agarwal Priti *, Simon Berger, Tom Shemesh, and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Active nuclear positioning and actomyosin contractility maintain leader cell integrity during gonadogenesis. Current Biology 34, no. 11 (2024): 2373-2386. *First and Corresponding author.
** Highlighted in Current Biology Dispatch – “Organogenesis:
How active forces maintain integrity of migrating cells under pressure”, 2024
Ray Shinjini #, Agarwal Priti #, Anat Nitzan, François Nédélec, and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Actin-capping protein regulates actomyosin contractility to maintain germline architecture in C. elegans." Development 150, no. 6 (2023): dev201099. # Equal contribution
Priti Agarwal, Tom Shemesh, and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Directed cell invasion and asymmetric adhesion drive tissue elongation and turning in C. elegans gonad morphogenesis." Developmental Cell 57, no. 17 (2022): 2111-2126.
** Highlighted in Current Biology Dispatch – “Worm development: Push not pull in gonad
morphogenesis”, 2022
Priti Agarwal, Hui Ting Ong, Yusuke Toyama, Anup Padmanabhan, Sabyasachi Dasgupta, Matej Krajnc, and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Syncytial germline architecture is actively maintained by contraction of an internal actomyosin corset." Nature Communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 4694
** Highlighted in MBI website: "Mechanics shaping the germline"
Priti Agarwal and Subramaniam K.
"PUF-8 functions redundantly with GLD-1 to promote the meiotic differentiation of spermatocytes in Caenorhabditis elegans." G3 (Bethesda), 2015 Jun 10; 5(8):1675-84.
Mainpal R, Priti Agarwal , Subramaniam K.
"PUF-8 suppresses the somatic transcription factor PAL-1 expression in
C. elegans germline stem cells." Developmental Biology, 2011 Dec 1; 360(1):195-207.9
Landschaft-Berliner D, Goldstein K, Teichman G, Anava S, Gingold H, Rieger I, Levy N, Salzberg Y, Pechuk V, Priti Agarwal , Sagi D., Dror Cohen, Evelina Nikelshparg, Anat Ben-Zvi, Ronen Zaidel-Bar, Antonio Miranda Vizuete, Meital Oren-Suissa, Oded Rechavi.
"A Tunable and Druggable Mechanism to Delay Forgetting of Olfactory
Memories in C. elegans. " bioRxiv. 2024:2024-04.
Book chapter, Reviews, and Perspectives
Agarwal Priti * and Ronen Zaidel-Bar *.
"Outside influences: The impact of extracellular matrix mechanics on cell migration." Current Topics in Developmental Biology (2025). *Corresponding authors.
Priti Agarwal and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Mechanosensing in embryogenesis." Current Opinion in Cell Biology 68 (2021):1-9.
Agarwal Priti * and Ronen Zaidel-Bar*.
"Diverse roles of non-muscle myosin II contractility in 3D cell migration." Essays in Biochemistry 63, no. 5 (2019): 497-508. *Corresponding authors.
Priti Agarwal and Ronen Zaidel-Bar.
"Principles of actomyosin regulation in vivo." Trends in cell biology 29 (2019): 150-163
** Featured on the cover page of the issue.
Priti Agarwal , Clotilde Cadart, Loic Fort, James Gahan, Leah Greenspan, Thomas Juan, Polina Kameneva, and Yuchuan Miao.
“Pathway to Independence: the future of developmental biology”. Perspective. Development. 2023 Oct 1;150(19).
Priti Agarwal
In preprints: quantitative decoupling between regulatory modules safeguards phenotypic robustness. Development (2024) 151 (3): dev202691.
Perspective for the preprint https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.21.568006v1 published by Nathan Goehring’s group at Francis Crick Institute, UK.
Published on 2019/2/1
P Agarwal, R Zaidel-BarTrends in cell biology 29 (2), 150-163
Published on 2024/4/3
D Landschaft-Berliner, K Goldstein, G Teichman, S Anava, H Gingold, ...
Published on 2023/09/01
P Agarwal
Development 150 (18)
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Published on 2019/01
Written by Sruthi Jagannathan | Illustration by Diego Pitta de Araujo
Published in 2018
A Priti, HT Ong, Y Toyama, A Padmanabhan, S Dasgupta, M Krajnc, ...
Published on 2024/2/1
P Agarwal
Development 151 (3), dev202691
Published in 2024/02
P Agarwal, R Zaidel-Bar
Current Opinion in Cell Biology 68, 1-9
Published in 2018
S Ray, P Agarwal, A Nitzan, F Nédélec, R Zaidel-Bar Development 150 (6), dev201099
Published on 2023/10/1
P Agarwal, C Cadart, L Fort, J Gahan, L Greenspan, T Juan, P Kameneva, ...
Development 150 (19)
Published on 2019/10
P Agarwal, R Zaidel-Bar
Essays in Biochemistry 63 (5), 497-508