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Caroline Filan, Madison Green, Abigail Diering, Marcus T. Cicerone, Lily S. Cheung, Joel E. Kostka & Francisco E. Robles (2024). Label-free functional analysis of root-associated microbes with dynamic quantitative oblique back-illumination microscopy. Scientific Reports, 14, 5812.

Sojeong Gwon*, Jihyun Park*, AKM Mahmudul Huque, and Lily S. Cheung (2023). The Arabidopsis SWEET1 and SWEET2 uniporters recognize similar substrates while differing in subcellular localization. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 299, 12, 105389 [* Equal contribution]

Yan Gong, Lily S. Cheung, and Elena M. Kramer (2023). Decoding the black essence of Melianthus nectar. New Phytologist, 239: 1542-1544.

Jihyun Park, Ryan G. Abramowitz, Sojeong Gwon, and Lily S. Cheung (2023). Exploring the substrate specificity of a sugar transporter with biosensors and cheminformatics. ACS Synthetic Biology, 12, 2: 565–571.

Jihyun Park, Gozde S. Demirer, Lily S. Cheung (2022). Toolboxes for plant systems biology research. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 75: 102692.

Jihyun Park, Taylor M. Chavez, Jordan A. Guistwhite, Sojeong Gwon, Wolf B. Frommer, Lily S. Cheung (2022). Development and quantitative analysis of a biosensor based on the Arabidopsis SWEET1 sugar transporter. PNAS, 119(4): e2119183119.

Xueyi Xue, Jiang Wang, Diwakar Shukla, Lily S. Cheung, Li-Qing Chen (2022). When SWEETs turn tweens: Updates and perspectives. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 73: 379-403.

Yan Gong, Julien Alassimone, Rachel Varnau, Nidhi Sharma, Lily S Cheung, Dominique C Bergmann (2021). Tuning self-renewal in the Arabidopsis stomatal lineage by hormone and nutrient regulation of asymmetric cell division. eLife, 10: e63335.

Yan Gong, Rachel Varnau, Eva-Sophie Wallner, Raghav Acharya, Dominique C Bergmann, and Lily S Cheung (2021). Quantitative and dynamic cell polarity tracking in plant cells. New Phytologist, 230: 867-877.

Brian B. Merritt and Lily S. Cheung (2019). GRIBCG: a software for selection of sgRNAs in the design of balancer chromosomes. BMC Bioinformatics, 20: 122.

Yuyong Tao*, Lily S Cheung*, Shuo Li, Joon-Seob Eom, Li-Qing Chen, Yan Xu, Kay Perry, Wolf B Frommer, and Liang Feng (2015). Structure of a eukaryotic SWEET transporter in a homotrimeric complex. Nature, 527 (7577): 259–263.  [* Equal contribution]

Li-Qing Chen*, Lily S. Cheung*, Liang Feng, Widmar Tanner, and Wolf B. Frommer (2015). Transport of sugars. Annual Review of Biochemistry, 84: 865–894.  [*Equal contribution]

Lily S. Cheung and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2015). A multiplex fluorescent in situ hybridization method for clonal analysis of Drosophila oogenesis. Tissue Morphogenesis (Methods in Molecular Biology series): 115–122.

Enrica Charbonnier, Alisa Fuchs, Lily S. Cheung, Mrinal Chayengia, Ville Veikkolainen, Janine Seyfferth, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, George Pyrowolakis (2015). BMP-dependent gene repression cascade in Drosophila eggshell patterning. Developmental Biology, 400: 258–265.

Yan Xu*, Yuyong Tao*, Lily S. Cheung*, Chao Fan, Li-Qing Chen, Sophia Xu, Kay Perry, Wolf B. Frommer and Liang Feng (2014). Structures of bacterial homologues of SWEET transporters in two distinct conformations. Nature, 515: 448–452.  [*Equal contribution]

Lily S. Cheung*, David S. Simakov*, Alisa Fuchs, George Pyrowolakis, and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2013). Dynamic model for the coordination of two enhancers of broad by EGFR signaling. PNAS, 110 (44): 17939–17944. [*Equal contribution].

Alisa Fuchs*, Lily S. Cheung*, Enrica Charbonnier*, Stanislav Y. Shvartsman and George Pyrowolakis (2012). Transcriptional interpretation of the EGF receptor signaling gradient. PNAS, 109 (5): 1572–1577.  [*Equal contribution]

David S. Simakov, Lily S. Cheung, Len M. Pismen and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2012). EGFR-dependent network interactions that pattern Drosophila eggshell appendages. Development 139: 2814–2820.

Lily S. Cheung, Trudi Schüpbach and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2011). Pattern formation by receptor tyrosine kinases: analysis of the Gurken gradient in Drosophila oogenesis. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development 21: 1–7.

Jeremiah J. Zartman*, Lily S. Cheung*, Matthew G. Niepielko, Christine Bonini, Benjamin Haley, Nir Yakoby and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2011). Pattern formation by a moving morphogen source. Physical Biology 8, 4  [*Equal contribution].

Jeremiah J. Zartman, Jitedra S. Kanodia, Lily S. Cheung and Stanislav Y. Shvartsman (2009). Feedback control of the EGFR signaling gradient: superposition of domain-splitting events in Drosophila oogenesis. Development 136: 2903– 2911.

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