Publications

Recent Publications

• Rumbo M,  Bañón A,  Nechiporuk N,  Alsina B. The Cxcl14 chemokine defines pioneer axon guidance and early circuit assembly in the inner ear. BioRxiv. doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.21.726833

• Roncero-Carol J, Olaizola-Muñoa J, Arán B, Mularoni LS, Miret Cuesta M, Blanco-Cabra N, Casals M, Rumbo M, Solé Inarejos M, Ojosnegros S, Alsina B, Torrents E, Veiga A, Irimia M, Hoijman E (2025). Epithelial cells provide immunocompetence to the early embryo for bacterial clearance.Cell Host Microbe 33(7):1106-1120.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2025.05.025. 

• Rumbo B and AlsinaB (2024). Cellular diversity of human inner ear organoids revealed by single-cell transcriptomics. Development.

  151(23):dev202524. doi: 10.1242/dev.202524.

• Bañón A and AlsinaB (2023). Pioneer statoacoustic neurons guide neuroblast behaviour during otic ganglion assembly. Development.  1;150(21):dev201824. DOI: 10.1242/dev.201824

• Nomdedeu-Sancho G and Alsina B (2022). Wiring the senses: Factors that regulate peripheral axon pathfinding in sensory systems. Dev Dynamics, doi: 10.1002/dvdy.523.

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• Samper-Martín B.,  Sarrias A. ,  Lázaro B. ,Pérez-Montero M.,  Rodríguez-Rodríguez R., Ribeiro M.P.C.,Bañón A., WolfgeherD., Jessen H.J. , Alsina B., Clotet J., Kron S.J., Saiardi A., Jiménez J.,Bru S. (2021). Polyphosphate degradation by Nudt3-Zn2+ mediates oxidative stress response, Cell Reports, 37,  7,110004

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• Alsina B. (2020). Cell Specification in vertebrate sensory neuron and cranial ganglia. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 67, 79-85

• Taberner L, Bañón A and Alsina B (2020). Sensory neuroblast quiescence depends on vascular cytoneme contacts and sensory neuronal differentiation requires initiation of blood flow. Cell Reports 32, 107903

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• Taberner L, Bañón A and Alsina B (2018). Anatomical Map of the Cranial Vasculature and Sensory Ganglia. Journal of Anatomy 232 (3):431-439. doi: 10.1111/joa.12762.

• Hoijman E. , Fargas L., Blader P and Alsina B  (2017). Pioneer neurog1 expressing cells ingress into the otic epithelium and instruct neuronal specification. eLife 6 pii:e25543 Epub ahead of print

• Alsina B and Whitfield TT (2017). Sculpting the labyrinth: Morphogenesis of the developing inner ear. Sem Cell Dev Biol 65:47-59. 

• Streit A and Alsina B (2016). Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Inner ear Development. 235-258. Springer Book. Organogenetic Gene Networks, Editors Bovolenta P and Castelli-Gair J.  ISBN 978-3-319-42765-2

• Pujadas G, Cervantes S, Tutusaus A, Ejarque M, Sanchez L, Garcia A, Esteban Y, Fargas L, Alsina B, Hartmann C, Gomis R, Gasa R (2016). Wnt9a deficiency discloses a repressive role of Tcf7l2 on endocrine differentiation in the embryonic pancreas. Sci Rep6:19223. DOI: 10.1038/srep19223.

• Hoijman E, and Alsina B (2015). Cavity Morphogenesis: imaging mitotic forces in action. Cell Cycle 14(18):2867-8. DOI: 10.1080/15384101.2015.1076657. 

• Rubbini D, Robert-Moreno A, Hoijman E, and Alsina B (2015). Retinoic Acid Signaling Mediates Hair Cell Regeneration by Repressing p27kip and Sox2 in Supporting Cells. Journal of Neurosc. 35 (47):15752-66. DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI. 1099.2015.

• Hoijman E, Rubbini D, Colombelli J, and Alsina B (2015). Mitotic cell rounding and epithelial thinning regulate lumen growth and shape. Nature Commun 6:7355 DOI 10.1038

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