Couwenbergs C, Labbe JC, Goulding M, Marty T, Bowerman B, Gotta M., (2007). Heterotrimeric G protein signaling functions with dynein to promote spindle positioning in C. elegans. J Cell Biol. [Epub ahead of print]

Goulding MB, Canman JC, Senning EN, Marcus AH, Bowerman B., (2007). Control of nuclear centration in the C. elegans zygote by receptor-independent G{alpha} signaling and myosin II. J Cell Biol., 178(7):1177-91.

J.-M. Bellanger, J. C. Carter, J. B. Phillips, C. Canard, B. Bowerman and P. Gönczy (2007). TAC-1/ZYG-9 and ZYG-8 promote microtubule stability during both interphase and mitosis in C. elegans embryos. J. Cell Science 120:2963-2973

O'Rourke S.M., Dorfman M.D., Carter J.C., Bowerman B., (2007). Dynein modifiers in C. elegans: light chains suppress conditional heavy chain mutants. PLoS Genet. 3 (8): e128 [Epub ahead of print]

S. Q. Schneider and B. Bowerman (2007) β-catenin asymmetries after all animal/vegetal- oriented cell divisions in Platynereis dumerilii embryos mediate binary cell-fate specification, Developmental Cell, 13 (1): 73-86

W. J. Gillis, B. Bowerman, S. Q. Schneider (2007). Ectoderm- and endomesoderm-specific GATA transcription factors in the marine annelid Platynereis dumerilii. Evol Dev 9 (1): 39-50.

D. Poteryaev, H. Fares, B. Bowerman and A. Spang (2007) Caenorhabditis elegans SAND-1 is a novel regulator of RAB-7 in endosomal traffic. The EMBO Journal 26: 301–312,

Lyczak R., Zweier, L., Group, T., Murrow, M.A., Snyder, C., Kulovitz, L., Beatty, A., Smith, K., Bowerman, B. (2006) The puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase PAM-1 is required for meiotic exit and anteroposterior polarity in the one-cell Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Development 133: 4281-4292

J. H. Willis, E. Munro, R. Lyczak and B. Bowerman (2006). Dominant mutations in the C. elegans gene act-2 identify cytoplasmic and muscle roles for a redundant actin isoform. Mol. Biol. Cell 17, 1051-64.

N. C. Hawkins, G. C. Ellis, B. Bowerman and G. Garriga (2005). MOM-5 Frizzled regulates the distribution of DSH-2 to control C. elegans asymmetric neuroblast divisions. Dev. Biology 284, 246-259.

T. Kurz, N. Ozlu, F. Rudolf, S. M. O’Rourke, B. Luke, K. Hoffman, A. A. Hyman, B. Bowerman and M. Peter (2005). Identification of a conserved protein required for cullin neddylation in C. elegans and S. cerevisiae. Nature, 435:1257-61. (*co-last authors)

Encalada S.E., J. Willis, R. Lyczak, and B. Bowerman. (2005) A Spindle Checkpoint Functions during Mitosis in the Early Caenorhabditis elegans Embryo. Mol Biol Cell 16:1056-70.

Koushika S.P., A.M.Schaefer, R. Vincent, J.H. Willis, B. Bowerman, and M.L. Nonet (2004) Mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans cytoplasmic dynein components reveal specificity of neuronal retrograde cargo. J Neurosci 24:3907-16.

Phillips J.B., R. Lyczak, G.C. Ellis, and B. Bowerman (2004) Roles for two partially redundant alpha-tubulins during mitosis in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 58:112-26.

Ellis G.C. J.B. Phillips, S. O'Rourke, R. Lyczak and B. Bowerman (2004) Maternally expressed and partially redundant beta-tubulins in Caenorhabditis elegans are autoregulated. J Cell Sci 117:457-64.

Pintard L., J.H. Willis, A. Willems, J.L. Johnson, M. Srayko, T. Kurz, S. Glaser, P.E. Mains, M. Tyers, B. Bowerman, and M. Peter (2003) The BTB protein MEL-26 is a substrate-specific adaptor of the CUL-3 ubiquitin-ligase. Nature 425:311-6.

Pintard L., T. Kurz, S. Glaser, J.H. Willis, M. Peter, and B. Bowerman (2003) Neddylation and Deneddylation of CUL-3 Is Required to Target MEI-1/Katanin for Degradation at the Meiosis-to-Mitosis Transition in C. elegans. Curr Biol 13:911-21.

Severson A.F. and B. Bowerman (2003) Myosin and the PAR proteins polarize microfilament-dependent forces that shape and position mitotic spindles in Caenorhabditis elegans. J Cell Biol 161:21-6.

Hamill, D.R., A.F. Severson, J.C. Carter, and B.Bowerman (2002) Centrosome maturation and mitotic spindle assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans require SPD-5, a protein with multiple coiled-coil domains. Dev Cell 3:673-84.

Severson, A.F., D.L. Baillie, and B.Bowerman (2002) A Formin Homology protein and a Profilin are requred for cytokinesis and Arp2/3-independent assembly of cortical microfilaments in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Curr Biol 12:2066-75.

Rappleye C.A., A. Tagawa, R. Lyczak, B. Bowerman, and R.V. Aroian (2002) The anaphase-promoting complex and separin are required for embryonic anterior-posterior axis formation. Dev Cell 2:195-206.

Kurz, T., L. Pintard, J.H. Willis, D.R. Hamill, P. Gonczy, M. Peter, and B. Bowerman (2002) Cytoskeletal regulation by the Nedd8 ubiquitin-like protein modification pathway. Science 295:1294-8.

Gomes, J.E., S.E. Encalada, K.A. Swan, C.A. Shelton, J.C. Carter, and B. Bowerman (2001) The maternal gene spn-4 encodes a predicted RRM protein required for mitotic spindle orientation and cell fate patterning in eary C. elegans embryos. Development 128:4301-14.

Maduro, M.F., M.D. Meneghini, B. Bowerman, G. Broitman-Maduro, and J.H. Rothman (2001) Restriction of mesendoderm to a single blastomere by the combined action of SKN-1 and a GSK-3ß homolog is mediated by MED-1 and -2 in C. elegans. Molecular Cell 7:475-85.

Golden, A., P.L. Sadler, M.R. Wallenfang, J.M. Schumacher, D.R. Hamill, G. Holt, B. Bowerman, G. Seydoux, and D.C. Shakes (2000) Metaphase to anaphase transition (Mat) mutants in Caenorhabditis elegans, J. Cell Biology 151:1469-82.

Encalada, S.E., P.R.Martin, J.B. Phillips, R. Lyczak, D.R. Hamill, K.A. Swan, and B. Bowerman (2000) DNA replication defects delay cell division and disrupt cell polarity in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos, Dev. Biol. 228:225-38.

Severson, A.F., D.R. Hamill, J.C. Carter, and B. Bowerman (2000) The aurora-related kinase AIR-2 recruits ZEN-4/CeMKLP1 to the mitotic spindle at metaphase and is required for cytokinesis. Curr. Biol. 10:1162-71.

Schlesinger, A., C.A. Shelton, M. Meneghini, and B. Bowerman (1999) Wnt signaling orients a mitotic spindle independently of gene transcription in early C. elegans embryos. Genes and Development 13:2028-38.

Shelton, C.A., J.C. Carter, G. Ellis, and B. Bowerman (1999) The nonmuscle myosin regulatory light chain gene mlc-4 is required for cytokinesis, anterior-posterior polarity, and body morphology during C. elegans embryogenesis. Journal of Cell Biology 136:439-52.

Ishitani, T., J. Ninomiya-Tsuji, S-I. Ngai, M. Nishita, M.D. Meneghini, N. Barker, M. Waterman, B. Bowerman, H. Clevers, H. Shibuya, K. Matsumoto (1999) The TAK1/NLK MAP Kinase-related pathway antagonizes ß-catenin-TCF signalling. Nature 399:798-802.

Meneghini, M.D., T. Ishitani, J.C. Carter, N. Hisamoto, J. Ninomiya-Tsuiji, C.J. Thorpe, D.R. Hamill, K. Matsumoto, and B. Bowerman (1999) MAP Kinase and Wnt pathways converge to downregulate an HMG domain repressor in C. elegans. Nature 399:793-7.

Swan, K.A., A.F. Severson, J.C. Carter, P.R. Martin, H. Schnabel, R. Schnabel, and B. Bowerman (1998) cyk-1: A C. elegans FH gene required for a late step in cytokinesis. J. Cell Science 111:2017-27.

Bowerman, B. (1998) Maternal control of pattern formation in the early C. elegans embryo. Current Topics in Developmental Biology 39:73-118.

Rupert, P., G.W. Daughdrill, B. Bowerman, and B.W. Matthews (1998) The binding domain of SKN-1 in complex with DNA: a New DNA-Binding Motif. Nature Structural Biology 5:484-91.

Bowerman, B., M.K. Ingram, and C.P. Hunter (1997) The maternal par genes and the segregation of cell fate specification activities in early Caenorhabditis elegans embryos. Development 124:3815-26.

Thorpe, C., A. Schlesinger, J.C. Carter, and B. Bowerman (1997) Wnt signaling polarizes an early C. elegans blastomere to distinguish endoderm from mesoderm. Cell 90:695-705.

Shelton, C.A. and B. Bowerman (1996) Time dependent response to glp-1 mediated signaling in early C. elegans embryos. Development 122:2043-50.

Draper, B.W., C.C. Mello, B. Bowerman, J. Hardin, J.R. Priess (1996) MEX-3 is a KH domain protein that regulates blastomere identity in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 87:205-16.

Bowerman, B. (1995) Determinants of blastomere identity in the early C. elegans embryo. BioEssays 17:405-14.

Blackwell, T.K., B. Bowerman, J.R. Priess, and H. Weintraub (1994) Formation of a monomeric binding domain by Skn-1 bZIP and homeodomain elements. Science 266:621-8.

Mango, S.E., C.J. Thorpe, P.M. Martin, S.H. Chamberlain, and B. Bowerman (1994) Two maternal genes, apx-1 and pie-1, are required to distinguish the fates of equivalent blastomeres in the early C. elegans embryos. Development 120:2305-15.

Bowerman, B., B.W. Draper, C.C. Mello, and J.R. Priess (1993) The maternal gene skn-1 encodes a protein that is distributed unequally in early C. elegans embryos. Cell 74:443-52.

Bowerman, B., F.E. Tax, J.H. Thomas, and J.R. Priess (1992) Cell interactions involved in development of the bilaterally symmetrical intestinal valve cells during embryogenesis in C.elegans. Development 116:1113-22.

Bowerman, B., B.A. Eaton, and J.R. Priess (1992) skn-1, a maternally expressed gene required to specify the fate of ventral blastomeres in the early C. elegans embryo. Cell 68:1061-75.

Selected Reviews

Bowerman, B., Left-right asymmetry: making the right decision early.(2006) Curr Biol.; 16(24): R1039-42.

B. Bowerman, Kurz, T (2006) Degrade to create: developmental requirements for ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis during early C. elegans embryogenesis. Development, 133(5): 773-84

B. Bowerman (2005). Oxidative stress and cancer: a ß-catenin convergence. Perspective in Science 308, 1119-1120.

S. M. O’Rourke and B. Bowerman (2005). Frontiers of gene function. News & Views in Nature 434, 444-445.

Bowerman B. (2004) Cell division: timing the machine. Nature 430:840-2.

Nash B., and B. Bowerman (2004) Uncoiling centriole duplication. Nat Cell Biol 6:573-5.

S.Q. Schneider and B. Bowerman (2003) Cell polarity and the cytoskeleton in the Caenorhabditis elegans zygote. Annu Rev Genet 37:221-49.

Lyczak, R., J.E. Gomes, and B. Bowerman (2002) Heads or tails: cell polarity and axis formation in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Dev Cell 3:157-66.

Severson, A.F. and B. Bowerman (2002) Cytokinesis: closing in on the central spindle. Dev Cell 2:41-54.

Gomes, J.E. and B. Bowerman (2002) Caenorhabditis elegans par genes. Curr Biol 12:R444.

Moon R.T., B. Bowerman, M. Boutros, and N. Perrimon (2002) The promise and perils of Wnt signaling through beta-catenin. Science 296:1644-6.

Bowerman B. (2001) Cytokinesis in the C. elegans embryo: regulating contractile forces and a late role for the central spindle. Cell Struct Funct. 26:603-7.

Doe, C.Q. and B. Bowerman (2001) Asymmetric cell division: fly neuroblast meets worm zygote.Curr. Opin. Cell. Biol. 13:68-75.

Bowerman, B. (2000) Embryonic polarity: protein stability in asymmetric cell division.Curr. Biol. 10:R637-41.

Bowerman, B. and C.A. Shelton (1999) Cell polarity in the early Caenorhabditis elegans embryo. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 9:390-5.