Dr. Hans Bode and colleagues paper recognized as one of Top-5 most cited articles in Dev.Biology from 2009-2011

Dr. Bode, Professor in Developmental and Cell Biology, and his colleagues reported in the 2009 paper that early development of Hydra, a simple fresh-water invertebrate, involves an organizer and activation of a Wnt signaling cascade. This demonstrated for the first time that signaling molecules involved in early patterning during vertebrate embryogenesis are also important in patterning of a simple invertebrate.