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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Yann Barrandon is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research centers around biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as engineering, with a particular focus on molecular biology and biomedical engineering.

Their work spans several subfields including urology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and dermatology. Key topics explored in their research involve microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, 3D printing in biomedical research, hair growth and disorders, pluripotent stem cells research, skin protection and aging, skin and cellular biology research, and RNA research and splicing.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Barrandon include:

  • Ariane Rochat
  • Georges Muller
  • David Bonzon
  • Philippe Renaud
  • Stéphanie Claudinot

They have published in various venues, most frequently in SLAS TECHNOLOGY. Other publication outlets include Nature Communications, Biomedicines, EMBO Reports, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Representative recent papers are:

  • "Tp63-expressing adult epithelial stem cells cross lineages boundaries revealing latent hairy skin competence," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The Transcriptional Regulator Prdm1 Is Essential for the Early Development of the Sensory Whisker Follicle and Is Linked to the Beta-Catenin First Dermal Signal," 2022, Biomedicines
  • "Low temperature and mTOR inhibition favor stem cell maintenance in human keratinocyte cultures," 2023, EMBO Reports
  • "Traceable Impedance-Based Dispensing and Cloning of Living Single Cells," 2020, SLAS TECHNOLOGY
  • "Traceable impedance-based single-cell pipetting, from a research set-up to a robust and fast automated robot: DispenCell-S1," 2022, SLAS TECHNOLOGY

Yann Barrandon is recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2011 and is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Three clonal types of keratinocyte with different capacities for multiplication

    Yann Barrandon;Howard Green

  • Wound repair and regeneration

    Geoffrey C. Gurtner;Sabine Werner;Yann Barrandon;Yann Barrandon;Michael T. Longaker

  • Morphogenesis and Renewal of Hair Follicles from Adult Multipotent Stem Cells

    Hideo Oshima;Ariane Rochat;Cécile Kedzia;Koji Kobayashi

  • Dominant role of the niche in melanocyte stem-cell fate determination

    Emi K. Nishimura;Emi K. Nishimura;Siobhán A. Jordan;Hideo Oshima;Hideo Oshima;Hisahiro Yoshida

  • Cell migration is essential for sustained growth of keratinocyte colonies: The roles of transforming growth factor-α and epidermal growth factor

    Yann Barrandon;Howard Green

  • Mutations in SPINK5, encoding a serine protease inhibitor, cause Netherton syndrome.

    S Chavanas;C Bodemer;A Rochat;D Hamel-Teillac

  • Location of stem cells of human hair follicles by clonal analysis

    Ariane Rochat;Koji Kobayashi;Yann Barrandon

  • Cell size as a determinant of the clone-forming ability of human keratinocytes

    Yann Barrandon;Howard Green

  • Long-term regeneration of human epidermis on third degree burns transplanted with autologous cultured epithelium grown on a fibrin matrix.

    Vincent Ronfard;Jean-Michel Rives;Yves Neveux;Herve Carsin

  • Spink5-deficient mice mimic Netherton syndrome through degradation of desmoglein 1 by epidermal protease hyperactivity.

    Pascal Descargues;Céline Deraison;Chrystelle Bonnart;Maaike Kreft

  • Long-term renewal of hair follicles from clonogenic multipotent stem cells

    Stéphanie Claudinot;Michael Nicolas;Hideo Oshima;Ariane Rochat

  • Neural crest–derived cells with stem cell features can be traced back to multiple lineages in the adult skin

    Christine E. Wong;Christian Paratore;María T. Dours-Zimmermann;Ariane Rochat

  • Expression of an exogenous growth hormone gene by transplantable human epidermal cells

    Jeffrey R. Morgan;Yann Barrandon;Howard Green;Richard C. Mulligan

  • Segregation of keratinocyte colony-forming cells in the bulge of the rat vibrissa.

    Koji Kobayashi;Ariane Rochat;Yann Barrandon

  • Stem cell niches in mammals

    Thimios A. Mitsiadis;Ornella Barrandon;Ariane Rochat;Yann Barrandon

  • Sox10 promotes the formation and maintenance of giant congenital naevi and melanoma

    Olga Shakhova;Daniel Zingg;Simon M. Schaefer;Lisette Hari

  • Conditional Disruption of Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Defines its Critical Role in Hair Development and Regeneration

    Li Chun Wang;Zhong-Ying Liu;Laure Gambardella;Alexandra Delacour

  • Characterization of 18 new mutations in COL7A1 in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa provides evidence for distinct molecular mechanisms underlying defective anchoring fibril formation.

    Alain Hovnanian;Ariane Rochat;Christine Bodemer;Elisabeth Petit

  • The transcriptional repressor CDP (Cutl1) is essential for epithelial cell differentiation of the lung and the hair follicle

    Tammy Ellis;Laure Gambardella;Markus Horcher;Stefan A. Tschanz

  • Hair Follicle Stem Cells

    Robert M. Lavker;Tung Tien Sun;Hideo Oshima;Yann Barrandon

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Green
Howard Green Harvard University
Alain Hovnanian
Alain Hovnanian Imagine Institute for Genetic Diseases
Philippe Renaud
Philippe Renaud École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Shigeki Higashiyama
Shigeki Higashiyama Ehime University
Freddy Radtke
Freddy Radtke École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michel Goossens
Michel Goossens Grenoble Alpes University
Leena Bruckner-Tuderman
Leena Bruckner-Tuderman University of Freiburg
Hiroshi Toki
Hiroshi Toki Osaka University
Angela M. Christiano
Angela M. Christiano Columbia University
Jeffrey A. Hubbell
Jeffrey A. Hubbell New York University

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