PUBLICATIONS
Cell Polarity

Van Hoffelen, S. and Herman, M.A. 2008. Analysis of Wnt signalling during C. elegans postembryonic development. in Methods in Molecular Biology. Wnt signaling: Methods and model systems. E. Vincan, Ed., Humana Press (Totawa, NJ), in press

Wu, M. and Herman, M.A. 2007. Asymmetric localization of LIN-17/Fz and MIG-5/Dsh are required for the the asymmetric B cell division in C. elegans. Dev. Biol., 303:650-662

Walston, T., Guo, C., Proenca, R., Wu, M. Herman, M., Hardin, J., Hedgecock, E. 2006. mig-5/Dsh controls cell fate determination and cell migration in C. elegans. Dev. Biol, 298: 485-497

Arata, Y., Kouike, H. Zhang, Y., Herman, M.A., Okano, H, and Sawa, H. 2006. The Wnt signal and Hox cooperate to express PSA-3/Meis, which determines specific daughter fates after asymmetric division in C. elegans, Dev Cell, 11, 105-115

Wu, M. and Herman, M.A. 2006. A novel noncanonical Wnt pathway is involved in the regulation fo the asymmetric B cell division in C. elegans. Dev. Biol, 293:316-329.(PDF)

Van Hoffelen, S. and Herman, M.A. 2006. Stem Cells: Specifying stem cell niches in the worm. Curr. Biol. 16, R175-177.(PDF)

Herman, M.A. Hermaphrodite cell fate specification. (January 09, 2006). in WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, Wormbook,doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.39.1, http://www.wormbook.org

Herman, M.A. and Wu, M. (2004). Noncanonical Wnt signaling pathways in C. elegans converge on POP-1/Tcf and control cell polarity. Frontiers in Bioscience 9, 1530-1539.(PDF)

Hoeppner, D., Spector, M.S., Ratliff, T.R., Kinchen, J.M. Granat, S., Lin, S-C, Bhusri, S.S., Conradt, B., Herman, M.A., and Hengartner, M.O. 2004. eor-1 and eor-2 are required for cell-specific apoptotic death in C. elegans, Dev. Biol, 274, 125-138.(PDF)

Zhao, X. Sawa, H., and Herman, M. A. (2003). tcl-2 encodes a novel protein that acts synergistically with the Wnt signaling pathway in C. elegans. Dev. Biol., 256, 276-289.(PDF)

Herman, M.A. (2003). Wnt signaling in C. elegans. In Wnt signaling in Development, M. Kühl, Editor. Landes Biosciences: Georgetown, TX, USA, pp.187-212.(PDF)

Herman, M.A. (2002). Control of cell polarity by noncanonical Wnt signaling in C. elegans.
Semin. Cell Dev. Biol. 13, 233-241.(PDF)

Xiaojun Zhao, Ying Yang, David H. A. Fitch, and Michael A. Herman (2002). TLP-1 is an asymmetric cell fate determinant that responds to Wnt signals and controls male tail tip morphogenesis in C. elegans.
Development 129, 1497-1508.(PDF)

Herman, M. A. (2001). C. elegans POP-1/TCF functions in a canonical Wnt pathway that controls cell migration and a noncanonical Wnt pathway that controls cell polarity.
Development 128, 581-590.(PDF)

Korswagen, H. C., Herman, M. A., and Clevers, H. C. (2000). Distinct beta-catenins mediate adhesion and signalling functions in C. elegans. Nature 406, 527-532.(PDF)

Herman, M. A., Ch'ng, Q., Hettenbach, S. M., Ratliff, T. M., Kenyon, C., and Herman, R. K. (1999). EGL-27 is similar to a metastasis-associated factor and controls cell polarity and cell migration in C. elegans.
Development 126, 1055-1064.(PDF)

Herman, M. A., Vassilieva, L. L., Horvitz, H. R., Shaw, J. E., and Herman, R. K. (1995). The C. elegans gene lin-44, which controls the polarity of certain asymmetric cell divisions, encodes a Wnt protein and acts cell nonautonomously.Cell 83, 101-110.(abstract)

Herman, M. A. and Horvitz, H. R. (1994). The Caenorhabditis elegans gene lin-44 controls the polarity of asymmetric cell divisions. Development 120, 1035-1047.(PDF)

Ecological Genomics

Kammenga, J.E., Herman, M.A., Ouberg. N.J., Johnson, L.C., Breitling, R. (2007), Microarray challenges in ecology, TREE., 22, 273-279.

Ungerer, M.C., Johnson, L.C., Herman, M.A.( 2007) Ecological genomics: understanding gene functions in the natural environment. Heredity, 100, 178-183.

Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., Coolon, J.D., Blair, J. M., and Herman, M.A. 2006. Molecular approach for assessing responses of microbial-feeding nematodes to burning and chronic nitrogen enrichment in a native grassland, Mol. Ecol., 15, 2601-2609.

Jones, K.L., Todd, T.C., and Herman, M.A. 2006 Development of taxon-specific markers for high-throughput screening of microbial-feeding nematodes, Molecular Ecology Notes, 6, 712-714 .