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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute in London in James Briscoe’s lab. My research focuses on stem cells and embryonic mammalian development. I will be most likely talking about cell fate decisions, gene regulatory networks, and functional genomics.
I obtained a diploma in Biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2007. I spent 2006 in Aarhus (Denmark) as an Erasmus student, and did my master’s project in Ernst Martin Fuechtbauer’s lab. Before starting my PhD, I spent four months in Barcelona as a summer student in Anna Bigas’ lab (IMIM). In 2007, I joined Miguel Manzanares’ group at CNIC in Madrid, Spain to perform a PhD under the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation – FPU program. During my time in Dr. Manzanares’ laboratory, I studied the first lineage choice in mammalian embryos, namely the establishment of the Trophectoderm, representing the first distinct cell type segregated in the embryo. I joined James Briscoe’s lab in January 2016 supported by an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship. I am currently investigating neural tube fate choices from single precursors and interspecies differences in transcriptional regulation.
Outside the lab, I am passionate about radio broadcasting. I am editor and presenter of the podcast En Fase Experimental. Our fortnightly radio program includes the scientific news and interviews with scientists, trying to reach and inspire the general public.
An early cell shape transition drives evolutionary expansion of the human forebrain
| Selected by | Monica Tambalo, Teresa Rayon, Maiko Kitaoka |
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Interspecies differences in proteome turnover kinetics are correlated with lifespans and energetic demands
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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Defining totipotency using criteria of increasing stringency
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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Differences in mitochondrial activity trigger cell competition during early mouse development
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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Species-specific oscillation periods of human and mouse segmentation clocks are due to cell autonomous differences in biochemical reaction parameters
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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A Scube2-Shh feedback loop links morphogen release to morphogen signaling to enable scale invariant patterning of the ventral neural tube
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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Epiblast formation by Tead-Yap-dependent expression of pluripotency factors and competitive elimination of unspecified cells
| Selected by | Sarah Bowling, Teresa Rayon |
Quantitative, real-time, single cell analysis in tissue reveals expression dynamics of neurogenesis
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
Temporal Control of Transcription by Zelda in living Drosophila embryos
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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Quantification of gene expression patterns to reveal the origins of abnormal morphogenesis
| Selected by | Teresa Rayon |
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