From 1998 onwards, as fluorescence imaging in living organisms develops, Thomas Lecuit studies the cellular basis of developmental dynamics. He is interested in the formation of the primordial tissue of the Drosophila embryo, a process called cellularization, and discovers the origins of membrane dynamics and its polarization.Lecuit T, Wieschaus E, « Polarized insertion of new membrane from a cytoplasmic reservoir during cleavage of the Drosophila embryo », J Cell Biol, 2000 aug 21;150(4), p. 849-60Lecuit T, Samanta R, Wieschaus E, « slam encodes a developmental regulator of polarized membrane growth during cleavage of the Drosophila embryo », Developmental Cell, 2002 apr;2(4), p. 425-36
