Lara C. Busby

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Hi! I’m currently an EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley in Megan Martik’s group. I am a developmental biologist, broadly interested in how cells integrate intrinsic and extrinsic cues to coordinate cell state transitions in space and time. I’m excited about using classical experimental embryology approaches with modern molecular techniques to answer fundamental questions in vertebrate developmental biology, and have worked with systems including limb development, somitogenesis and most recently, the neural crest.

selected publications

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    Intrinsic and extrinsic cues time somite progenitor contribution to the vertebrate primary body axis
    Lara C. Busby, Guillermo Serrano Nájera, and Benjamin John Steventon
    Elife, 2024
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    Ectomesenchymal identity emerges via relief of Twist1 transcript destabilization
    Lara C. Busby, Jessica R Patrick, Luke W Lyons, and 1 more author
    bioRxiv, 2025