Selected publications

Ricardo Barrientos, Billie Meadowcroft, Besaiz J Sánchez-Sánchez, Brian M Stramer, Ewa K Paluch, Guillaume Charras, Shiladitya Banerjee, Anđela Šarić, Yanlan Mao (2026)

Basement membrane turnover controls cell shape

Cell, 2026 Jul 30:S0092-8674(26)00808-1.

doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.07.010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867426008081?via%3Dihub

Giulia Paci, Buzz Baum and Yanlan Mao (2026)

3D epithelial cell topology tunes signaling range to promote precise patterning

PNAS, May 6, 2026

123 (19) e2522727123

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2522727123

Yanlan Mao and Sara A Wickström (2024)

Mechanical state transitions in the regulation of tissue form and function

Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2024 Aug;25(8):654-670.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38600372/

L Blackie, P Gaspar, S Mosleh, O Lushchak, L Kong, Y Jin, A P Zielinska, B Cao, A Mineo , B Silva, T Ameku, S Lim, Y Mao, L Prieto-Godino, T Schoborg, M Varela , L Mahadevan, and I Miguel-Aliaga (2024)

The sex of organ geometry

Nature. 2024 Jun.

doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07463-4

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38811741/

W Marshall, B Baum, A Fairhall, C Heisenberg, E Koslover, A Liu, Y Mao, A Mogilner, C M Nelson, E K Paluch, XTrepat, A Yap (2024)

Where physics and biology meet

Curr Biol. 2024 Oct

doi: 10.1016 j.cub.2024.08.022
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39437734/

Lim, Shu En; Pablo Vicente-Munuera and Yanlan Mao (2024)

Forced back into shape: Mechanics of epithelial wound repair

Current opinion in Cell biology, Jan 30.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2024.102324

Giulia Pacia and Yanlan Mao (2021)

Forced into shape: Mechanical forces in Drosophila development and homeostasis

Semin Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Dec; 120: 160–170.

doi: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2021.05.026

Kirkland NJ, et al (2020)

Tissue Mechanics Regulate Mitotic Nuclear Dynamics during Epithelial Development

Current Biology (PMID:32413305)

Melda Tozluoǧlu,Maria Duda, Natalie J. Kirkland, Ricardo Barrientos, Jemima J. Burden, José J. Muñoz,Yanlan Mao

Planar Differential Growth Rates Initiate Precise Fold Positions in Complex Epithelia

Developmental Cell

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2019.09.009

Guzmán-Herrera A & Mao Y (2019)

Polarity during tissue repair, a multiscale problem

Curr Opin Cell Biol (PMID:31514044)

Vicente-Munuera P et al (2019)

EpiGraph: an open-source platform to quantify epithelial organization

Bioinformatics (PMID:31544932)

Tetley R, et al (2019)

Tissue fluidity promotes epithelial wound healing Nature Physics. doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0618-1

Duda M, et al (2019)

Polarization of Myosin II Refines Tissue Material Properties to Buffer Mechanical Stress

Dev Cell, Jan 28;48(2):245-260.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.12.020.

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