Publications

Wenemoser D, Lapan SW, Wilkinson AW, Bell GW, Reddien PW. A molecular wound response program associated with regeneration initiation in planarians. Genes Dev 26(9), 988-1002 (2012).


Scimone ML, Srivastava M, Bell GW, and Reddien PW.. A regulatory program for excretory system regeneration in planarians. Development 138(20), 4387-98 (2011).

Lapan SW and Reddien PW. dlx and sp6-9 Control Optic Cup Regeneration in a Prototypic Eye. PLoS Genet 7(8), e1002226 (2011).

Tanaka EM, Reddien PW. The cellular basis for animal regeneration. Dev Cell 21(1), 172-85 (2011).



Wagner DE, Wang IE, and Reddien PW. Clonogenic neoblasts are pluripotent adult stem cells that underlie planarian regeneration. Science 332(6031), 811-6 (2011).


Wenemoser D and Reddien PW. Planarian regeneration involves distinct stem cell responses to wounds and tissue absence. Dev Biol 344(2), 979-91 (2010).

Scimone ML, Meisel J and Reddien PW. The Mi-2-like Smed-CHD4 gene is required for stem cell differentiation in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Development 137(8), 1231-41 (2010).

Petersen CP and Reddien PW. Wnt signaling and the polarity of the primary body axis. Cell 139(6), 1056-68 (2009).

Glazer AM, Wilkinson AW, Backer CB, Lapan SW, Gutzman JH, Cheeseman IM and Reddien PW. The Zn finger protein Iguana impacts Hedgehog signaling by promoting ciliogenesis. Dev Biol 337(1), 148-56 (2010).

Petersen CP and Reddien PW. A wound-induced Wnt expression program controls planarian regeneration polarity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106(40), 17061-6 (2009).

Reddien PW, Newmark PA and Sanchez Alvarado A. Gene nomenclature guidelines for the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea. Dev Dyn 237(11), 3099-101 (2008).


Reddien PW, Bermange AL, Kicza AM and Sanchez Alvarado A. BMP signaling regulates the dorsal planarian midline and is needed for asymmetric regeneration. Development 134(22), 4043-51 (2007).

Reddien PW, Oviedo NJ, Jennings JR, Jenkin JC and Sanchez Alvarado A. SMEDWI-2 is a PIWI-like protein that regulates planarian stem cells. Science 310(5752), 1327-30 (2005).

Reddien PW, Bermange AL, Murfitt KJ, Jennings JR and Sanchez Alvarado A. Identification of genes needed for regeneration, stem cell function, and tissue homeostasis by systematic gene perturbation in planaria. Dev Cell 8(5), 635-49 (2005).

Reddien PW and Sanchez Alvarado A. Fundamentals of planarian regeneration. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 20, 725-57 (2004).

Newmark PA, Reddien PW, Cebria F and Sanchez Alvarado A. Ingestion of bacterially expressed double-stranded RNA inhibits gene expression in planarians. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100, 11861-5 (2003).