Dr Naveen Wijesena
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Book Chapters
Wijesena, Naveen (2019). Germ layer evolution: using novel approaches to address a classic evolutionary embryological problem. Old questions and young approaches to animal evolution. (pp. 133-149) edited by José M. Martín-Durán and Bruno C. Vellutini. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18202-1_7
Kumburegama, Shalika, Wijesena, Naveen and Wikramanayake, Athula H. (2008). Detecting expression patterns of Wnt pathway components in Nematostella vectensis embryos. Wnt signaling - volume 2: pathway models. (pp. 55-67) edited by Elizabeth Vincan. New York, United States: Humana Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-60327-469-2_6
Journal Articles
Wijesena, Naveen, Sun, Hongyan, Kumburegama, Shalika and Wikramanayake, Athula H. (2022). Distinct Frizzled receptors independently mediate endomesoderm specification and primary archenteron invagination during gastrulation in Nematostella. Developmental Biology, 481, 215-225. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2021.11.002
Xu, Xiaocui, Li, Guoqiang, Li, Congru, Zhang, Jing, Wang, Qiang, Simmons, David K., Chen, Xuepeng, Wijesena, Naveen, Zhu, Wei, Wang, Zhanyang, Wang, Zhenhua, Ju, Bao, Ci, Weimin, Lu, Xuemei, Yu, Daqi, Wang, Qian-fei, Aluru, Neelakanteswar, Oliveri, Paola, Zhang, Yong E., Martindale, Mark Q. and Liu, Jiang (2019). Evolutionary transition between invertebrates and vertebrates via methylation reprogramming in embryogenesis. National Science Review, 6 (5), 993-1003. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwz064
Wijesena, Naveen and Martindale, Mark Q. (2018). Reengineering the primary body axis by ectopic cWnt signaling. Current Biology, 28 (5), R206-R207. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.042
Wijesena, Naveen, Simmons, David K. and Martindale, Mark Q. (2017). Antagonistic BMP-cWNT signaling in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis reveals insight into the evolution of mesoderm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114 (28), E5608-E5615. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701607114
Kumburegama, Shalika, Wijesena, Naveen, Xu, Ronghui and Wikramanayake, Athula H. (2011). Strabismus-mediated primary archenteron invagination is uncoupled from Wnt/β-catenin-dependent endoderm cell fate specification in Nematostella vectensis (Anthozoa, Cnidaria): Implications for the evolution of gastrulation. EvoDevo, 2 2. doi: 10.1186/2041-9139-2-2
Conference Papers
Wijesena, Naveen M., Kumburegama, Shalika, Xu, Ronghui and Wikramanayake, Athula (2011). Wnt signaling in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis: Insights into the evolution of gastrulation. 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology, Chicago, IL, United States, 21-25 July 2011 . Maryland Heights, MO, United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.05.027
Wikramanayake, Athula H., Kumburegama, Shalika, Peng, Jeff and Wijesena, Naveen (2009). Wnt signaling and the evolution of pattern formation. Experimental Biology 2009 Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, 18–22 April 2009. Hoboken, NJ, United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1096/fasebj.23.1_supplement.308.3
Wijesena, N., Kumburegama, N. S. and Wikramanayake, A. (2009). Investigating the role of Wnt/PCP signaling in the evolution of embryonic polarity in metazoans. Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston, MA, United States, 3-7 January 2009. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/icb/icp003