Arbor growth and lineage development in Drosophila

Selected Publications

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

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

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

Shepherd D, Harris R, Williams DW, Truman JW (2016) Postembryonic lineages of the Drosophila ventral nervous system: Neuroglian expression reveals the adult hemilineage associated fiber tracts in the adult thoracic neuromeres. J Comp Neurol

Loncle N, Agromayor M, Martin-Serrano J, Williams DW (2015) An ESCRT module is required for neuron pruning. Sci Rep