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SELECTED  Publications


Live imaging endogenous transcription factor dynamics reveals mechanisms of epiblast and primitive endoderm segregation 
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Kim-Yip RP*, Denberg D*, Faerberg DF, Nunley H, Leite I, Chalifoux M, Joyce B, Toettcher J, Gu B, Posfai E ✉

Current Biology (2025)
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.07.031

​*equal contribution
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Epithelial polarization by the planar cell polarity complex is exclusively non-cell autonomous

Basta L, Joyce B, Posfai E, Devenport D ✉

Science (2025)
doi: 10.1126/science.ads5704


Geometric, cell cycle and maternal-to-zygotic transition-associated YAP dynamics during preimplantation embryo development

Madeleine Chalifoux*, Avdeeva M*, Posfai E ✉

Developmental Biology (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.27.640568

​*equal contribution

Generative model for the first cell fate bifurcation in mammalian development

Avdeeva M*✉, Madeleine Chalifoux*, Bradley Joyce, Shvartsman S, Posfai E ✉

bioRxiv (2025)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.24.639895
accepted in Development


​*equal contribution

A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice

Levy E*, Leite I*, Joyce B, Shvartsman S, Posfai E ✉

Current Biology (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.10.062

​*equal contribution
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​Efficient prime editing in two-cell mouse embryos using PEmbryo

Kim-Yip R*, McNulty R*, Joyce B, Mollica A, Chen P, Ravisankar P, Law B, Liu D, Toettcher J, Ivakine E, Posfai E ✉, Adamson B ✉

Nature Biotechnology (2024)
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-02106-x

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*equal contribution

Nuclear instance segmentation and tracking for preimplantation mouse embryos

Nunley H, Shao B, Denberg D, Grover P, Singh J, Avdeeva M, Joyce B, Kim-Yip R, Kohrman A, Biswas A, Watters A, Gal Z, Kickuth A, Chalifoux M, Shvartsman S, Brown L ✉, Posfai E ✉

​Development (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202817
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New mouse models for high resolution and live imaging of planar cell polarity proteins in vivo

Basta L, Hill-Oliva M, Paramore S.V., Sharan R, Goh A, Biswas W, Cortez M, Little K, Posfai E, Devenport D ✉

​Development (2021) 148(18):dev199695.

All models are wrong, but some are useful: Establishing standards for stem cell-based embryo models

Posfai E ✉, Lanner F ✉, Mulas C, Leitch HG ✉

​Stem Cell Reports (2021) 16(5):1117-1141. Review.
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​Imaging developmental cell cycles

Kohrman AQ,  Kim-Yip RP, Posfai E ​✉

Biophys J. (2021) 120(19):4149-4161. Review.


Evaluating totipotency using criteria of increasing stringency

Posfai E ✉, Schell JP, Janiszewski A, Rovic I, Murray A, Bradshaw B, Yamakawa T, Pardon T, El Bakkali M, Talon I, De Geest N, Kumar P, To SK, Petropoulos S, Jurisicova A, Pasque V ✉, Lanner F ✉, Rossant J ✉

​Nature Cell Biology (2021) 23(1):49-60
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​Efficient Generation of Large-Fragment Knock-In Mouse Models Using 2-Cell (2C)-Homologous Recombination (HR)-CRISPR


Gu B, Posfai E, Gertsenstein M, Rossant J ✉

​Current Protocols in Mouse Biology (2020) 10(1):e67

​Generation of Large-Fragment Knock-In Mouse Models by Microinjecting into 2-Cell Stage Embryos

Gu B ✉, Gertsenstein M, Posfai E

​Methods in Molecular Biology (2020) 2066:89-100
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​Esrrb function is required for proper primordial germ cell development in presomite stage mouse embryos


Okamura E, Tam OH, Posfai E, Li L, Cockburn K, Lee CQE, Garner J, Rossant J ​✉

​Developmental Biology (2019) 455(2):382-392

The mammalian embryo's first agenda: making trophectoderm

Posfai E ✉, Rovic I, Jurisicova A ​✉

​The International Journal of Developmental Biology (2019) 63(3-4-5):157-170
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​Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos

Gu B*, Posfai E*, Rossant​ J 
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​Nature Biotechnology (2018) 36(7):632-637

*equal contribution

​Modeling signaling-dependent pluripotency with Boolean logic to predict cell fate transitions

Yachie-Kinoshita A, Onishi K, Ostblom J, Langley M, Posfai E, Rossant J, Zandstra PW ​
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Molecular Systems Biology (2018) 14(1): e7952
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​Position- and Hippo signaling-dependent plasticity during lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo 

Posfai E, Petropoulos S, de Barros FRO, Schell JP, Jurisica I, Sandberg R, Lanner F, Rossant J 
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​eLife (2017) 6:e22906 

Depending on maternal Yap

Posfai E, Rossant J
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Cell Research (2016) 26: 393–394. 
Research highlight.


​Mechanisms of pluripotency in vivo and in vitro

Posfai E, Tam OH, Rossant J ​
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​Current Topics in Developmental Biology (2014) 107: 1-37. Review.
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Polycomb function during oogenesis is required for early embryonic development

Posfai E, Kunzmann R, Brochard V, Salvaing J, Cabuy E, Roloff T-C, Liu Z, Tardat M, van Lohuizen M, Vidal M, Beaujean and Antoine HFM Peters ​
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Genes and Development (2012) 26(9): 920-32 


​BspRI restriction endonuclease: cloning, expression in E. coli and sequential cleavage mechanism

Raskó T, Dér, A, Klement É, Ślaska-Kiss K, Pósfai E, Medzihradszky K, Marshak D, Roberts R, Kiss A ​
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Nucleic Acids Research (2010) 38(20): 7155-7166
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​Chromosome-wide nucleosome replacement and H3.3 incorporation during mammalian meiotic sex chromosome inactivation

van der Heijden GW*, Derijck AA*, Posfai E, Giele M, Pelczar P, Ramos L, Wansink DG, van der Vlag J, Peters AHFM, de Boer P 
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Nature Genetics (2007) 39(2): 251-8 

*equal contribution
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