Erica Hutchins, PhD

Assistant Professor
Cell and Tissue Biology

Erica Hutchins, PhD studies how post-transcriptional regulation controls developmental pluripotency and cell fate decisions in vivo, using vertebrate neural crest as a model.

Publications: 

"Beyond transcription: How post-transcriptional mechanisms drive neural crest EMT".

Genesis (New York, N.Y. : 2000)

Guzman-Espinoza M, Kim M, Ow C, Hutchins EJ

Temporal changes in plasma membrane lipid content induce endocytosis to regulate developmental epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Piacentino ML, Hutchins EJ, Andrews CJ, Bronner ME

RNA-binding protein Elavl1/HuR is required for maintenance of cranial neural crest specification.

eLife

Hutchins EJ, Gandhi S, Chacon J, Piacentino M, Bronner ME

Essential function and targets of BMP signaling during midbrain neural crest delamination.

Developmental biology

Piacentino ML, Hutchins EJ, Bronner ME

Transcriptomic Identification of Draxin-Responsive Targets During Cranial Neural Crest EMT.

Frontiers in physiology

Hutchins EJ, Piacentino ML, Bronner ME

A Spectrum of Cell States During the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition.

Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)

Hutchins EJ, Bronner ME

Bimodal function of chromatin remodeler Hmga1 in neural crest induction and Wnt-dependent emigration.

eLife

Gandhi S, Hutchins EJ, Maruszko K, Park JH, Thomson M, Bronner ME

Migration and diversification of the vagal neural crest.

Developmental biology

Hutchins EJ, Kunttas E, Piacentino ML, Howard AGA, Bronner ME, Uribe RA

A novel role for the nuclear localization signal in regulating hnRNP K protein stability in vivo.

Biochemical and biophysical research communications

Hutchins EJ, Belrose JL, Szaro BG

c-Jun N-terminal kinase phosphorylation of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K regulates vertebrate axon outgrowth via a posttranscriptional mechanism.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Hutchins EJ, Szaro BG