Arbor growth and lineage development in Drosophila

2025

Sproston CJ, Rak JE, Marin EC, Kondo S, Williams DW (2025) Hemilineage-specific deployment of the pro-apoptotic RHG genes reaper and grim during neurogenesis sculpts segment and sex-specific neural network composition in Drosophila. Development

Wu H, Constance W, Abe A, Kondo S, Williams D, Tanimoto H (2025) Spatial Gradient of Axon Terminal Maturation Reveals the Sequential Active Zone Assembly in Adult Drosophila Mushroom Bodies. MicroPubl Biol

2020

Court R, Namiki S, Armstrong JD, Börner J, Card G, Costa M, Dickinson M, Duch C, Korff W, Mann R, Merritt D, Murphey RK, Seeds AM, Shirangi T, Simpson JH, Truman JW, Tuthill JC, Williams DW, Shepherd D (2020) A Systematic Nomenclature for the Drosophila Ventral Nerve Cord. Neuron
Pop S, Chen CL, Sproston CJ, Kondo S, Ramdya P, Williams DW (2020) Extensive and diverse patterns of cell death sculpt neural networks in insects. Elife

2019

Shepherd D, Sahota V, Court R, Williams DW, Truman JW (2019) Developmental organization of central neurons in the adult Drosophila ventral nervous system. J Comp Neurol

2018

Constance WD, Mukherjee A, Fisher YE, Pop S, Blanc E, Toyama Y, Williams DW (2018) Neurexin and Neuroligin-based adhesion complexes drive axonal arborisation growth independent of synaptic activity. Elife

2017

Mukherjee A, Williams DW (2017) More alive than dead: non-apoptotic roles for caspases in neuronal development, plasticity and disease. Cell Death Differ