Mandal S.,Guptan, P., Owusu-Ansah, E., and Banerjee, U. Mitochondrial Regulation of Cell Cycle Progression during Development as revealed by tenured mutation in Drosophila. (Submitted)

Jung, S-H., Evans, C., Uemura, and Banerjee, U. (2005) The Drosophila lymph gland as a developmental model of hematopoiesis. Development 132: 2521-2533

Chen, J., Call, G., Milchanowski, A., Banerjee, U., et al. (2005) Discovery-Based Science Education: Functional
Genomic Dissection in Drosophila by Undergraduate Researchers. PLoS Biol 3:e59

Nagaraj, R. and Banerjee, U. (2004) The little R cell that could. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 48, 755-760.

Milchanowski, A., Henkenius, A., Narayanan, M., Hartenstein, V., and Banerjee, U. (2004) Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in Embryonic Crystal Cell Formation During Drosophila Hematopoiesis. Genetics, 168, 325-339

Mandal, L., Banerjee, U., Hartenstein, V. (2004) Evidence for a hemangioblast and similarities between lymph gland hematopoiesis in Drosophila and mammalian AGM. Nature Genetics, 36, 1019-1023

Evans, C.J., Hartenstein, V., and Banerjee, U. (2003) Thicker Than Blood: Conserved Mechanisms in Drosophila and Vertebrate Hematopoeisis. Developmental Cell. 5, 673-690.

Yan, H-J., Canon, J., and Banerjee, U. (2003) A transcriptional chain linking eye specification to terminal determination of cone cells in the Drosophila eye. Developmental Biology. 263, 323-329.

Evans, Cory J. and Banerjee, Utpal (2003) Transcriptional Regulation of Hematopoiesis in Drosophila. Blood Cells, Molecules, & Diseases. 30, 223-228.

Canon, J. and Banerjee, U (2003) In vivo analysis of a developmental circuit for direct transcriptional activation and repression in the same cell by a Runx protein. Genes & Development, 17, 838-843.

Lebestky, T., Jung, S-H.and Banerjee, U. (2003) A Serrate-expressing signaling center controls Drosophila hematopoiesis. Genes & Development. 17, 348-353.

Raghavendra Nagaraj and Utpal Banerjee. (2003) Reiterative and concurrent use of EGFR and Notch signaling during Drosophila eye development. Editors-in-Chief, Bradshaw and Dennis in Hand Book of Cellular Signaling, Academic press. (In Press).

Tsuda, L., Nagaraj, R., Zipursky, S. L., and Banerjee, U. (2002) The EGF Receptor, Sno and Ebi Control Delta Expression in Notch-mediated Induction. Cell, 110, 625-637.

Kaminker, J. S., Canon, J., Salecker, I., and Banerjee, U. (2002) Control of photoreceptor axon target choice by transcriptional repression of Runt. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 746-750.

Nagaraj, R., Canon, J., and Banerjee, U. (2001) Cell Fate Specification in the Drosophila eye. In Drosophila eye development. Moses, K. Ed. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 73-88.

Kaminker,J., Singh, R., Lebestky, T., Yan, H., and Banerjee, U. (2001) Redundant Function of Runt Domain Binding Partners, Big-brother and Brother, During Drosophila Development. Development, 128, 2639-2648.

Flores, G., Duan, H., Yan, H-J., Nagaraj, R., Fu, W., Zou, Y., Noll, M., and Banerjee, U. (2000) A unique combinatorial model of signaling in specification of cell fate. Cell, 103, 75-86.

Lebestky, T., Chang, T., Hartenstein, V. and Banerjee, U. (2000) Specification of Drosophila hematopoietic lineage by conserved transcription factors. Science, 288, 146-149.

Canon, J., and U. Banerjee. (2000) Runt and Lozenge function in Drosophila
development. Sem. in Cell and Devel. Biol., 11, 327-336.

Pickup, A., and Banerjee, U. (1999) The role of Star in the production of an activated ligand for the EGF receptor signaling pathway. Devl. Biol. 205, 254-259.

Nagaraj, R., Pickup, A. T., Howes, R., Moses, K., Freeman, M. and Banerjee U. (1999) EGF receptor signaling in the specification of the Drosophila wing margin. Development, 126, 975-985.

Flores, G., Daga, A., Kalhor, H., and Banerjee, U. (1998) Lozenge is a global transcriptional regulator which pre-patterns cell-specific factors. Development, 125, 3681-3687.

Gupta, B., Flores, G., Banerjee, U. and Rodrigues, V. (1998) Role of Lozenge in antennal patterning. Devl. Biol. 203, 400-411.

Majumdar, A., Nagaraj, R. and Banerjee, U. (1997) strawberry notch encodes a conserved nuclear protein that functions downstream of Notch and regulates gene expression along the developing margin of Drosophila. Genes & Devl., 11, 1341-1353.

Meisner, H., Daga, A., Buxton, J., Banerjee, U., and Czech, M. P. (1997) Interactions of Drosophila Cbl with EGF Receptors and its role in R7 photoreceptor cell development. Mol. & Cell. Biol. 17, 2217-2225.

Daga, A., Karlovich, C. A. K., Dumstrei, K., and Banerjee, U. (1996) Patterning of cells in the Drosophila eye by Lozenge which shares homologous domains with AML1. Genes & Development, 10, 1194-1205.

Rogge, R. Green, P. J., Urano, J., Horn-Saban, S., Mlodzik, M., Shilo, B.-Z., Hartenstein, V., and Banerjee, U. (1995) The role of yan in mediating the choice between cell division and differentiation. Development, 121, 3947-3958.

McCollam, L., Bonfini, L., Karlovich, C. A., Conway, B. R., Kozma, L., Banerjee, U., and Czech, M. P. (1995) Functional roles for the Pleckstrin and Dbl homology regions in the Ras exchange factor Son of Sevenless. J. Biol. Chem., 270, 15954-15957.

Karlovich, C.A., Bonfini, L., Rogge, R., Daga, A., McCallum, L., Czech, M. P., and Banerjee, U. (1995) In vivo functional analysis of the Ras exchange protein Son of sevenless. Science, 268, 576-579.

Daga, A., and Banerjee U. (1994) Resolving the sevenless pathway using sensitized genetic backgrounds. Cell. Mol. Biol. Res., 46, 245-251.

Kolodkin, A. L., Pickup, A. T., Lin, D. M, Goodman, C. S., and Banerjee, U. (1994) Characterization of Star and its interactions with sevenless and EGF receptor during photoreceptor development in Drosophila. Development, 120, 1731-1745.

Coyle-Thompson, C. A., and Banerjee, U. (1993) The strawberry notch gene functions with Notch in common developmental pathways. Development, 119, 377 - 395.

Baltensperger, K., Kozma, L. M., Cherniack, A. D., Karlund, J. K., Chawla, A., Banerjee, U., and Czech, M. (1993) Insulin receptor substrate-1 signaling complexes bind Ras activator Son of sevenless. Science, 260, 1950 - 1952.

Rogge, R. D., Cagan, R., Majumdar, A., Dulaney, T., and Banerjee, U. (1992) Neuronal development in the Drosophila retina: The sextra gene defines an inhibitory component in the R7 developmental pathway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 89, 5271-5275.

Bonfini, L., Karlovich, C. A., Dasgupta, C., and Banerjee, U. (1992) The Son of sevenless gene : A putative activator of Ras. Science, 255, 603-606.

Rogge, R. D., Karlovitch, C. A., and Utpal Banerjee (1991) Genetic dissection of a neurodevelopmental pathway: Son of sevenless functions downstream of sevenless and EGF receptor tyrosine kinases. Cell, 64, 39-48.

Rogge, R. D. and Banerjee, U. (1990) Neural Pattern Formation in the Drosophila Eye. Adv. in Neural Regen. Res. Wiley-Liss, Inc. 309-323.

Banerjee, U., and Zipursky, S. L. (1990) The role of induction in the determination of cell fate in the Drosophila visual system. Neuron, 4, 177-187.

Postdoctoral Research

Banerjee, U., Renfranz, P. J., Hinton, D. R., Rabin, B. A., and Benzer, S. (1987) The sevenless+ protein is expressed apically in cell membranes of developing Drosophila retina: It is not restricted to cell R7. Cell, 51, 151-158.

Banerjee, U., Renfranz, P. J., Pollock, J. A., and Benzer, S. (1987) Molecular characterization and expression of sevenless, a gene involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila eye. Cell, 49, 281-291.

Graduate Research

Zidovetzki, R., Banerjee, U., and Chan, S. I. (1988) NMR study of the interaction of Polymyxin-B, Gramicidin-S and Valinomycin with Dimyristoyl Lecithin bilayers. Biochemistry, 27, 5686-5692.

Banerjee, U., Zidovetzki, R., Birge, R. R., and Chan, S. I. (1985) Interaction of alamethicin and lecithin bilayers: P31 and H2 NMR study. Biochemistry, 24, 7621-7625.

Cho, K. C., Blair, D. F., Banerjee, U., Hopfield, J. J., Gray, H. B., Pecht, I. and Chan, S. I. (1984) NMR spectroscopic identification of a hexacyanochromate (III) binding site on Pseudomonas azurin. Biochemistry, 23, 1858.

Banerjee, U. and Chan, S. I. (1983) The structure of alamethicin in solution: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxation studies. Biochemistry, 22, 3709.

Banerjee, U., Tsui, F. P., Balasubramanian, T. N., Marshall, G., R. and Chan, S. I. (1983) The structure of alamethicin in solution, one- and two- dimensional NMR studies at 500 MHz. J. Mol. Biol. 165, 757.

Schuh, J. R., Banerjee, U., Mueller, L., and Chan, S. I. (1982) The phospholipid packing arrangement in small bilayer vesicles as revealed by proton magnetic resonance studies at 500 MHz. Biophys. Biochim. Acta 687, 219.

Zidovetzki, R., Banerjee, U., Birge, R. R., and Chan, S. I. (1986) Nuclear magnetic resonance studies of the interaction of phospholipid bilayers with polypeptides antibiotics. In Dynamics of Biochemical Systems. Damjanovich et al., eds. Elsevier, NY. 501.

Zidovetzki, R., Banerjee, U., Birge, R. R., and Chan, S. I. (1986) Interactions of polypeptide antibiotics with phospholipid bilayers: P31 and H2 NMR study. In NMR in Biology and Medicine. Chien, H. and Ho, C. eds. Raven Press NY. 65.