Roberto Mayor Lab

You've probably heard of Twist1, but what about Twist2 and Twist3? Tressa Jacob and colleagues showed that these two genes are expressed during scale development. Messing up Twist2 affects scale morphology and organisation. How interesting? Check it out👇👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌟 We're thrilled to see the remarkable achievements of @mayorlab.bsky.social Roberto Mayor, UCL Professor and a member of our CDB department, featured in this inspiring article from the Society for Developmental Biology. 📖 Read here: www.sdbonline.org/resource?Res...

Today was the last time I did the Xenopus practical lab demonstration to the students at UCL. The first photo was when I first joined the @mayorlab.bsky.social lab, and the second photo is from today, 4 years later. We hope the students enjoy learning about wound healing and #devbio!

We heard through the vines that #cilia are hot (or not?) right now so here is a cool article by the Saxena lab about how Notch signalling inhibit zebrafish olfactory multiciliated cells differentiation 🐟 AND we got a cool movie with it too! #FluorescenceFriday www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're in love with our September issue cover! This stunning cover is from an article by the Rosin lab showing how CSF1R signaling impacts not only immune cells but also musculoskeletal development. Check out the article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Current Affairs: Tissue flow creates mechanical cues to coordinate immune-cell migration during development 📹 Hoang Anh Le et al @mayorlab.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @natcellbio.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social

☕ @anhhle2702.bsky.social @mayorlab.bsky.social & co show that in Xenopus embryos, local ectodermal tissue flows provide a directional cue that polarizes and guides embryonic myeloid cells migration via cell-on-cell interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A very intriguing story by Joao F. Botelho et al shows that in bird, the digit formation (their ✋) is not only governed by apoptosis but also due to changes in the rate of growth extension and cell division between the interdigital zone and the digital zone. So cool! #devbio doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition Congratulations to Natália Heloísa de Oliveira, Fernanda Salce, and @federicasalatiello.bsky.social, for their image, Amphipod, which received the most votes! thenode.biologists.com/winners-from...

Interested in gaining insight into modern #DevelopmentalBiology and #neurobiology? Sign up now for EMBO Practical Course "Developmental biology: From cells to neural systems" in Valparaiso, #Chile, 7–20 Jan 2027. Deadline: 30 Jul https://meetings.embo.org/event/27-dev-bio #EMBOdevBio #EMBOevents 🧪

‼️2 weeks left to registre to our EMBO practical course in Developmental Biology‼️. If you love microscopy, want to work with different model organisms, learn from some of the best scientists in #devbio, this is for you! biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply 🎥 of 🐥 embryo by one of our 2025 attendees!

Only two weeks left to apply for the Quintay Developmental Biology Course! The application deadline is 31 July 2026. biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply

Winners from the 2025 Quintay International Course on Developmental Biology cover competition thenode.biologists.com/winners-from...

✨ Excited to host invited speaker Roberto Mayor (@mayorlab.bsky.social) at #2026SDB in Las Vegas! 🎰🃏 His research explores morphogenesis, focusing on how cells migrate, interact, and generate diverse cell types during development. 🧬✨ #devbio

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There is still time to apply to our EMBO 2027 developmental biology course in Quintay. If you'd like a view like this where you collect samples for your experiments on a beach, then you're in the right place! Fellowships are available! #devbio #embo Apply here: biodesarrollo.unab.cl/how-to-apply

Cells and Development is our official journal. We covers topics within cells and #devbio, but also mechanobiology, theoretical biology, differentiation, organoid, and more, in both plants and animals. Consider publishing with us!

Excellent news: The latest figure shows that our impact factor has risen to 2.5. This takes an incredible amount of work, from how papers were selected, to how they were perceived by scientists in the field. We covers topics in cells, #devbio, 🌱or animals, biomechanics, and more. @isdb.bsky.social

The 2025 Quintay Dev Bio cohort is not just scientifically excellent but also ✨artistically✨ talented. They've generated some breathtaking photos 🔬🌈. Please VOTE for your favourite as the winning image will be the cover of an issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social thenode.biologists.com/vote-for-a-d...

Being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society is a tremendous honour. My deepest thanks go to the hundreds of students and postdocs who have passed through my lab over the last 30+ years. They have been the soul of the lab, and this recognition belongs as much to them as it does to me.

Spectacular Developmental Biology Jacques Monod Conference in Roscoff. Thanks to @bardinlab.bsky.social and @lionlchristiaen.bsky.social for putting together such an exciting scientific program. And the setting was incredible too, with a beautiful sunset to end the meeting.

New edition of the great Quintay Developmental Biology Course !!! More information at: biodesarrollo.unab.cl

The 2027 EMBO practical course on #devbio is now open for registration. You'll get work with a lot of different model organisms, from fly to frog and everything in between, plus amazing imaging too. And the city is beautiful, so what I've heard 😌!

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Do you work with #zebrafish? Wanting a budget-friendly housing system capable of thermal control and filtration? Perhaps you just set up your lab and are looking for a short term solution? Then ZebRack designed by the Valdivia lab might pique of your interest? Check it out: doi.org/10.1016/j.cd...

🚨 How do mechanical forces shape a developing organ? Our new #ScienceAdvances @science.org study, led by the amazing @cvagenapantoula.bsky.social, reveals a Piezo1-driven hydraulic mechanism, where mechanical cues control cell volume to guide cardiac formation ❤️🐟 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Force coordination distinguishes epithelial and mesenchymal modes of collective #chemotaxis. New study from Jorge Diaz and Roberto Mayor @mayorlab.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk: rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Migration #motility #Development

So proud to share my paper on collective chemotaxis and force coordination in epithelial and mesenchymal cells, developed in the Mayor Lab and now published in JCB. Deeply grateful for everything I learned from Xenopus NC and the amphibian world, where adaptation is everything🐸

Pacheco & @drericabiophd.bsky.social discuss new study from @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) which reveals the distinct force-generating mechanisms used by epithelial and mesenchymal cells during collective cell migration rupress.org/jcb/article/...

We had the privilege of contributing a @jcb.org Spotlight about the exciting new work from @mayorlab.bsky.social ! Check them out! Spotlight: rupress.org/jcb/article/... Featured article: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Collective migration is not just about leaders at the front, but about coordination across the group. Always exciting to see these dynamics visualized. Many thanks to @jcb.org for featuring our work 🐸🔬🌹

🔬 From our March issue (rupress.org/jcb/issue/22...): Epithelial neural collectives undergoing #chemotaxis, stained for phospho-#myosin (magenta), #actin (cyan), and nuclei (yellow). From @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social and @mayorlab.bsky.social: rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Beautiful, thorough, personal in places, memoir of John Gurdon from Eddy de Robertis, disciple and friend. Å #MustRead about a generation and a time from which we have moved on but that laid the foundation for contemporary biology. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two ways to move together: force coordination in collective #chemotaxis. Jessica Pacheco & Erica Hutchins @drericabiophd.bsky.social @ctbatucsf.bsky.social discuss study from @jorgediazfuentes.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social (rupress.org/jcb/article/...) in Spotlight rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Congratulations @mayorlab.bsky.social on this awesome-deserverd recognition by the @socdevbio.bsky.social ! Dr. Roberto Mayor career is a powerful example of the excellence, leadership, and creativity that #Latinx scientists bring to #DevelopmentalBiology!

Congrats @jeffreyafarrell.bsky.social !!! He is doing some of the most important work bringing Dev Bio to the 21st century... (the other winners are pretty good too I hear)

Oh man! What a crazy honor to receive this award from SDB!! I love being a part of SDB so much - it has led to so many awesome ideas, collaborations, and friendships over the last 13 years, so this is really exciting. Looking forward to seeing you all at the meeting. Thank you, SDB!!!

Huge congrats to all!

Congratulations to this fabulous group of award winners!

It’s a real honour to receive the Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the SDB. Teaching is one of the most rewarding parts of my life. Thanks to the SDB and the hundreds of students and faculty at the Quintay course who have made it such a joy.

In @jcb.org, Diaz & @mayorlab.bsky.social show that epithelial & mesenchymal cells navigate chemical cues via fundamentally different force-generating mechanisms, offering new insight into how diverse cell types achieve collective movement during development and disease. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Diaz and @mayorlab.bsky.social show that epithelial and mesenchymal cells navigate chemical cues via fundamentally different force-generating mechanisms, offering new insight into how diverse cell types achieve collective movement during development and disease. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Check out Part II of our special collection celebrating the centennial of the discovery of the organiser. From classical developmental biology, to tissue mechanics, and organoid and plant development, we've got it all!

Check out the summary written by our Editor in Chief, Professor Roberto Mayor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... And if you missed it, here is the link to Part I of the collection: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

We're in love with this cover image! 🧡 Part II of our Special Collection celebrating the Centennial of the Discovery of The Organiser is here. This issue focuses on the work presented at the Centennial Symposium at the University of Freiburg in September 2024: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/cell...

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