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Camille Curantz

@camillectz.bsky.social

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Post-doctoral fellow at IBPS in Marie Breau’s lab Developmental Biology- morphogenesis- cell fate- biomechanics- ECM

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Helen R Horkan @hrhorkan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It’s finally outtttt!!! Great to see this huge collab out, wouldn’t have been possible without any of the authors but especially my co-first @drsalamander.bsky.social and our mentors www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Hydractinia cell atlas reveals cellular and molecular principles of cnidarian coloniality - Nature Communications

Here they generate a cell type atlas of the colonial cnidarian Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus, which reveals that distinct colony parts are mostly made from unique combinations of shared cell types, an...

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Camille Curantz @camillectz.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

New insight on gonad morphogenesis ! Our new paper reveals how germ & somatic cells interact through TGF-Beta feedback loop to drive gonad morphogenesis in Hydractinia. Check out the full paper in Science Advances ! tinyurl.com/245rw699

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A positive feedback loop between germ cells and gonads induces and maintains sexual reproduction in a cnidarian

Cnidarian germ cells secrete TGF-β to induce gonad development, and gonads induce germ cells by activating Tfap2 in stem cells.

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Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Gonads and germ cells have an interdependent relationship in the cnidarian #Hydractinia. Germ cells secrete a TGF-beta ligand (called Gonadless) to induce and maintain the somatic gonad; gonads activate Tfap2 in pluripotent stem cells (i-cells) to commit them to germ fate tinyurl.com/245rw699

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Uri Frank @thecocodium.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#Hydractinia takes regeneration to the extreme¬in a new preprint, Curantz et al. show that dissociated, reaggregated cells can form a new individual. We also show how they do it and which cells types actually contribute to the new individual (tip: not many of them). tinyurl.com/mr2s9zyf

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