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Roberto Mayor is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Physiology, and Oncology.

The main topics within Mayor's work include:

  • Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
  • 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation

Roberto Mayor has contributed to a number of publications in prominent scientific venues, notably in:

  • Cells and Development
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Cell Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial-mesenchymal transition" (2020), published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Collective durotaxis along a self-generated stiffness gradient in vivo" (2021), published in Nature
  • "All Roads Lead to Directional Cell Migration" (2020), published in Trends in Cell Biology
  • "Durotaxis: The Hard Path from In Vitro to In Vivo" (2020), published in Developmental Cell
  • "Rules of collective migration: from the wildebeest to the neural crest" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Roberto Mayor include:

  • Adam Shellard
  • Namid Stillman
  • Brenda Canales Coutiño
  • Kai Weißenbruch
  • Guillaume Charras

Best Publications

  • Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition

    Jing Yang;Parker Antin;Geert Berx;Cédric Blanpain

  • The front and rear of collective cell migration

    Roberto Mayor;Sandrine Etienne-Manneville

  • Contact inhibition of locomotion in vivo controls neural crest directional migration

    Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Helen K. Matthews;Sei Kuriyama;Mauricio Moreno

  • Collective Chemotaxis Requires Contact-Dependent Cell Polarity

    Eric Theveneau;Lorena Marchant;Sei Kuriyama;Mazhar Gull

  • Neural crest delamination and migration: from epithelium-to-mesenchyme transition to collective cell migration.

    Eric Theveneau;Roberto Mayor

  • Induction of the prospective neural crest of Xenopus.

    R. Mayor;R. Morgan;M.G. Sargent

  • Collective cell migration in development

    Elena Scarpa;Roberto Mayor

  • Tissue stiffening coordinates morphogenesis by triggering collective cell migration in vivo

    Elias H. Barriga;Kristian Franze;Guillaume Charras;Guillaume Charras;Roberto Mayor

  • Tuning Collective Cell Migration by Cell–Cell Junction Regulation

    Peter Friedl;Peter Friedl;Roberto Mayor

  • The inductive properties of mesoderm suggest that the neural crest cells are specified by a BMP gradient.

    L. Marchant;C. Linker;P. Ruiz;N. Guerrero

  • Essential role of non-canonical Wnt signalling in neural crest migration.

    Jaime De Calisto;Claudio Araya;Claudio Araya;Lorena Marchant;Lorena Marchant;Chaudhary F. Riaz

  • Keeping in touch with contact inhibition of locomotion

    Roberto Mayor;Carlos Carmona-Fontaine

  • Regulation of Msx genes by a Bmp gradient is essential for neural crest specification

    Celeste Tríbulo;Manuel Javier Aybar;Vu H. Nguyen;Mary C. Mullins

  • The neural crest.

    Roberto Mayor;Eric Theveneau

  • Chase-and-run between adjacent cell populations promotes directional collective migration.

    Eric Theveneau;Benjamin Steventon;Benjamin Steventon;Benjamin Steventon;Elena Scarpa;Simon Garcia;Simon Garcia

  • Complement Fragment C3a Controls Mutual Cell Attraction during Collective Cell Migration

    Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Eric Theveneau;Apostolia Tzekou;Masazumi Tada

  • Directional migration of neural crest cells in vivo is regulated by Syndecan-4/Rac1 and non-canonical Wnt signaling/RhoA.

    Helen K. Matthews;Lorena Marchant;Carlos Carmona-Fontaine;Sei Kuriyama

  • Neural crest formation in Xenopus laevis: mechanisms of Xslug induction.

    Alejandra Mancilla;Roberto Mayor

  • Cadherin Switch during EMT in Neural Crest Cells Leads to Contact Inhibition of Locomotion via Repolarization of Forces

    Elena Scarpa;András Szabó;Anne Bibonne;Eric Theveneau

  • Posteriorization by FGF, Wnt, and retinoic acid is required for neural crest induction.

    Sandra Villanueva;Alvaro Glavic;Pablo Ruiz;Roberto Mayor

Frequent Co-Authors

Maddy Parsons
Maddy Parsons King's College London
Guillaume Charras
Guillaume Charras London Centre for Nanotechnology
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta
José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Spanish National Research Council
Joachim P. Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz Max Planck Society
Graham Dunn
Graham Dunn University of Manchester
Jean Paul Thiery
Jean Paul Thiery National University of Singapore
M. Angela Nieto
M. Angela Nieto Spanish National Research Council
John D. Lambris
John D. Lambris University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Trainor
Paul A. Trainor University of Kansas
Juan Modolell
Juan Modolell Spanish National Research Council

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