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Alfonso Martinez Arias

Alfonso Martinez Arias

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
16918
World Ranking
10084
National Ranking
773

Overview

Alfonso Martinez Arias is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as medicine. The scientist's work is notably concentrated in several subfields, including molecular biology, cell biology, surgery, physiology, and biomedical engineering.

The main topics in Alfonso Martinez Arias's research include pluripotent stem cells research, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, developmental biology and gene regulation, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, renal and related cancers, 3D printing in biomedical research, and zebrafish biomedical research applications.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Alfonso Martinez Arias include Naomi Moris, Gerard Piñol-Ripoll, Farida Dakterzada, Ricard López-Ortega, and Susanne van den Brink. Publications by Martinez Arias often appear in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, eLife, Nature Cell Biology, and Cells and Development.

Selected recent papers by Alfonso Martinez Arias include:

  • An in vitro model of early anteroposterior organization during human development, 2020, Nature
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal somitogenesis in gastruloids, 2020, Nature
  • High-throughput total RNA sequencing in single cells using VASA-seq, 2022, Nature Biotechnology
  • Cell-state transitions and collective cell movement generate an endoderm-like region in gastruloids, 2022, eLife
  • Human gastrulation: The embryo and its models, 2021, Developmental Biology

Best Publications

  • The development of Drosophila melanogaster

    Michael Bate;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Molecular biology of the cell (2nd edn): edited by B. Alberts, D. Bray, J. Lewis, M. Raff, K. Roberts and J.D, Watson, Garland, 1989 $46.95 (v + 1187 pages) ISBN 0 8240 3695 6

    Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Regulated Fluctuations in Nanog Expression Mediate Cell Fate Decisions in Embryonic Stem Cells

    Tibor Kalmár;Chea Lu Lim;Penelope Hayward;Silvia Muñoz-Descalzo

  • Cell and molecular biology of Notch

    Ulla-Maj Fiúza;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Role of segment polarity genes in the definition and maintenance of cell states in the Drosophila embryo

    A Martinez Arias;N E Baker;P W Ingham

  • Symmetry breaking, germ layer specification and axial organisation in aggregates of mouse embryonic stem cells

    Susanne C. van den Brink;Peter Baillie-Johnson;Tina Balayo;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis

  • Multi-axial self-organization properties of mouse embryonic stem cells into gastruloids

    Leonardo Beccari;Naomi Moris;Mehmet Girgin;David A. Turner

  • Transition states and cell fate decisions in epigenetic landscapes

    Naomi Moris;Cristina Pina;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • An in vitro model of early anteroposterior organization during human development

    Naomi Moris;Kerim Anlas;Kerim Anlas;Susanne C. van den Brink;Anna Alemany

  • Wnt/Notch signalling and information processing during development.

    Penelope Hayward;Tibor Kalmar;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal somitogenesis in gastruloids

    Susanne C. van den Brink;Anna Alemany;Vincent van Batenburg;Naomi Moris

  • CSL-independent Notch signalling : a checkpoint in cell fate decisions during development?

    Alfonso Martinez Arias;Vincent Zecchini;Keith Brennan

  • Filtering transcriptional noise during development: concepts and mechanisms

    Alfonso Martinez Arias;Penelope Hayward

  • Secretion and movement of wingless protein in the epidermis of the Drosophila embryo

    Francisco González;Lesley Swales;Amy Bejsovec;Helen Skaer

  • Notch modulates Wnt signalling by associating with Armadillo/β-catenin and regulating its transcriptional activity

    Penny Hayward;Keith Brennan;Phil Sanders;Tina Balayo

  • Epithelial mesenchymal interactions in cancer and development.

    Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Notch is required for wingless signaling in the epidermis of Drosophila

    Juan Pablo Couso;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • Notch, a Universal Arbiter of Cell Fate Decisions

    Matthias Ehebauer;Penelope Hayward;Alfonso Martinez Arias

  • A draft map of the mouse pluripotent stem cell spatial proteome.

    Andy Christoforou;Claire M. Mulvey;Lisa M. Breckels;Aikaterini Geladaki

  • Anteroposterior polarity and elongation in the absence of extra-embryonic tissues and of spatially localised signalling in gastruloids: mammalian embryonic organoids.

    David A Turner;Mehmet Girgin;Luz Alonso-Crisostomo;Vikas Trivedi

Frequent Co-Authors

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis
Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Alexander van Oudenaarden
Alexander van Oudenaarden University Medical Center Utrecht
Matthias P. Lutolf
Matthias P. Lutolf École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jennifer Nichols
Jennifer Nichols University of Cambridge
Denis Duboule
Denis Duboule Collège de France
Simon D. Guest
Simon D. Guest University of Cambridge
Martin F. Pera
Martin F. Pera Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Kathryn S. Lilley
Kathryn S. Lilley University of Cambridge
Palle Serup
Palle Serup University of Copenhagen
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University

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