See all Profiles
Woman with brown hair and glasses, wearing an orange shirt.
Faculty
Faculty

Ginger Hunter (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor

  • Biology
  • College of Arts & Sciences

Education & Expertise

Education

Ph.D.

Biology, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology Program
Duke University
2012

BS

Biology
University of Virginia
2004

Expertise

Developmental Biology

Cell Biology

Model system genetics (Drosophila melanogaster)

Research

Research

Specialty

Developmental Biology

Funding

NIH 2023-2028 Early Stage Investigator - Maximizing Investigators' Research Award: "Mechanisms of cellular morphogenesis that coordinate signaling during tissue patterning".

NIH 2023-2026 DMS/NIGMS Initiative for Biological and Mathematical Sciences: "DMS/NIGMS 1: Multi-scale modeling of Notch signaling during long-distance lateral inhibition". (co-I)

NIH 2022-2024 Small research grant: "Genetics of neural precursor communication during development of the Drosophila peripheral nervous system”.

 

Related Articles

Myosin XV is a negative regulator of signaling filopodia during long-range lateral inhibition.

Clements R, Smith, T, Cowart L, Zhumi J, Sherrod A, Cahill A, and GL Hunter. (2024) Developmental Biology 505: 110-121 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2023.11.002

Scabrous modulates Notch response via signaling filopodia during bristle pattern formation in Drosophila.

Presser A, Freund O, Hassapelis T, and GL Hunter. (2023)  PLoS One 18(9): e0291409.

Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation.

Frederick R. Adler; Alexander R. A. Anderson; Abhinav Bhushan; Paul Bogdan; Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero; Amy Brock; Yun Chen; Edna Cukierman; Kathleen E. DelGiorno; Gerald V. Denis; Meghan C. Ferrall-Fairbanks; Zev J. Gartner; Ronald N. Germain; Deborah M. Gordon; Ginger Hunter; Mohit Kumar Jolly; Loukia Georgiou Karacosta; Karthikeyan Mythreye; Parag Katira; Rajan P. Kulkarni; Matthew L. Kutys; Arthur D. Lander; Ashley M. Laughney; Herbert Levine; Emil Lou; Pedro R. Lowenstein; Kristyn S. Masters; Dana Pe'er; Shelly R. Peyton; Manu O. Platt; Jeremy E. Purvis; Gerald Quon; Jennifer K. Richer; Nicole C. Riddle; Analiz Rodriguez; Joshua C. Snyder; Gregory L. Szeto; Claire J. Tomlin; Itai Yanai; Ioannis K Zervantonakis; Hannah Ruth Dueck. (2023)  Cell Systems 14(4):252-257. 

Talking to your neighbors across scales: long-distance Notch signaling during patterning.

Hadjivasiliou Z and Hunter GL. (2022)  Current Topics in Developmental Biology. 150:299-334.

Phosphorylation and proteolytic cleavage of Notch in canonical and non-canonical Notch signaling.

Hunter GL and E Giniger. (2020)  Adv Exp Med Biol. 1227:51–68. 

Isotropic myosin-generated tissue tension is required for the dynamic orientation of the mitotic spindle.

Lam MSY, Lisica A, Ramkumar N, Hunter GL, Mao Y, Charras G, and B Baum. (2020) Molecular Biology of the Cell 31(13):1370-1379.

A role for actomyosin contractility in Notch signaling.

Hunter GL, He L, Perrimon N, Charras G, Giniger E, and B Baum. (2019)  BMC Biology 17:12. 

A new mechanism for spatial pattern formation via lateral and protrusion-mediated lateral signalling.

Hadjivasiliou Z, Hunter GL, and B Baum. (2016) J R Soc Interface 13: 20160484

Coordinated control of Notch-Delta signalling and cell division aids lateral inhibition mediated tissue patterning.

Hunter GL, Hadjivasiliou Z, Bonin H, He L, Perrimon N, Charras G, and B Baum. (2016)  Development 143: 2305-2310.

An absolute interval scale of order for point patterns.

Protonotarios E, Baum B, Johnston A, Hunter GL, and LD Griffin. (2014)  J R Soc Interface  11: 20140342.

Ion channels contribute to the regulation of cell sheet forces during Drosophila dorsal closure.

Hunter GL, Crawford JC, Jenkins JZ, and DP Kiehart. (2014)  Development  141: 325-334.