Life-cycle trajectory inference links temperature-gated progenitors to reproductive fate.

Vaidya G, Lagodny E, Girish A, Fuentes AM, Ross E, Robb S, Mirkes K, Yavru D, Khan AUM, Tischer C, Dorrity MW, Vu HTK

bioRxiv, 2026

doi:10.64898/2026.06.29.735214.

Single-nucleotide m⁶A mapping uncovers redundant YTHDF function in planarian progenitor fate selection.

Yesharim Y, Shwarzbard O, Barboy-Smoliarenko J, Cherian PV, Shachar R, Palavalli A, Vu HT, Schwartz S, Wurtzel O

The EMBO journal, 2026

doi:10.1038/s44318-025-00662-3.

Evolutionary dynamics of whole-body regeneration across planarian flatworms.

Vila-Farré M, Rozanski A, Ivanković M, Cleland J, Brand JN, Thalen F, Grohme MA, von Kannen S, Grosbusch AL, Vu HT, Prieto CE, Carbayo F, Egger B, Bleidorn C, Rasko JEJ, Rink JC

Nature ecology & evolution, 2023

doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02221-7.

Whole-mount in situ hybridization in large sexual Schmidtea mediterranea.

Vila-Farré M, Vu HT, Rink JC

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2023

doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-3275-8_7.

Dynamic polarization of the multiciliated planarian epidermis between body plan landmarks.

Vu HT, Mansour S, Kücken M, Blasse C, Basquin C, Azimzadeh J, Myers EW, Brusch L, Rink JC

Developmental cell, 2019

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2019.10.022.

Emergence of a bilaterally symmetric pattern from chiral components in the planarian epidermis.

Basquin C, Ershov D, Gaudin N, Vu HT, Louis B, Papon JF, Orfila AM, Mansour S, Rink JC, Azimzadeh J

Developmental cell, 2019

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2019.10.021.

Self-organization in development, regeneration and organoids.

Werner S, Vu HT, Rink JC

Current opinion in cell biology, 2017

doi:10.1016/j.ceb.2016.09.002.

Antagonistic self-organizing patterning systems control maintenance and regeneration of the anteroposterior axis in planarians.

Stückemann T, Cleland JP, Werner S, Thi-Kim Vu H, Bayersdorf R, Liu SY, Friedrich B, Jülicher F, Rink JC

Developmental cell, 2017

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2016.12.024.

Egf signaling directs neoblast repopulation by regulating asymmetric cell division in planarians.

Lei K, Thi-Kim Vu H, Mohan RD, McKinney SA, Seidel CW, Alexander R, Gotting K, Workman JL, Sánchez Alvarado A

Developmental cell, 2016

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2016.07.012.

Egr-5 is a post-mitotic regulator of planarian epidermal differentiation.

Tu KC, Cheng LC, T K Vu H, Lange JJ, McKinney SA, Seidel CW, Sánchez Alvarado A

eLife, 2015

doi:10.7554/eLife.10501.

Stem cells and fluid flow drive cyst formation in an invertebrate excretory organ.

Thi-Kim Vu H, Rink JC, McKinney SA, McClain M, Lakshmanaperumal N, Alexander R, Sánchez Alvarado A

eLife, 2015

doi:10.7554/eLife.07405.

The maintenance and regeneration of the planarian excretory system are regulated by EGFR signaling.

Rink JC, Vu HT, Sánchez Alvarado A

Development (Cambridge, England), 2011

doi:10.1242/dev.066852.