Dr Yanina Alvarez
Research Fellow/Senior Research officer
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
Book Chapters
Alvarez, Yanina D. and White, Melanie D. (2024). Early human embryo development revealed by static imaging. Textbook of assisted reproductive techniques. (pp. 330-340) edited by David K. Gardner, Ariel Weissman, Colin M. Howles and Zeev Shoham. Boca Raton, FL, United States: CRC Press. doi: 10.1201/9781003268598-31
Álvarez, Yanina D., Pellegrotti, Jesica V. and Stefani, Fernando D. (2018). Gold nanoparticles as nucleation centers for amyloid fibrillation. Use of nanoparticles in neuroscience. (pp. 269-291) edited by Fidel Santamaria and Xomalin G. Peralta. New York, NY USA: Springer New York. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7584-6_16
Bissiere, Stephanie, Gasnier, Maxime, Alvarez, Yanina D. and Plachta, Nicolas (2018). Cell fate decisions during preimplantation mammalian development. Cell fate in mammalian development. (pp. 37-58) edited by Berenika Plusa and Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis. Cambridge, MA United States: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2017.11.001
Journal Articles
Alvarez, Yanina D., van der Spuy, Marise, Wang, Jian Xiong, Noordstra, Ivar, Tan, Siew Zhuan, Carroll, Murron, Yap, Alpha S., Serralbo, Olivier and White, Melanie D. (2024). A Lifeact-EGFP quail for studying actin dynamics in vivo. Journal of Cell Biology, 223 (9) e202404066. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202404066
Wu, Zhixuan, Shen, Sophie, Mizikovsky, Dalia, Cao, Yuanzhao, Naval-Sanchez, Marina, Tan, Siew Zhuan, Alvarez, Yanina D., Sun, Yuliangzi, Chen, Xiaoli, Zhao, Qiongyi, Kim, Daniel, Yang, Pengyi, Hill, Timothy A., Jones, Alun, Fairlie, David P., Pébay, Alice, Hewitt, Alex W., Tam, Patrick P.L., White, Melanie D., Nefzger, Christian M. and Palpant, Nathan J. (2024). Wnt dose escalation during the exit from pluripotency identifies tranilast as a regulator of cardiac mesoderm. Developmental Cell, 59 (6), 705-722.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.01.019
Skory, Robin M., Moverley, Adam A., Ardestani, Goli, Alvarez, Yanina, Domingo-Muelas, Ana, Pomp, Oz, Hernandez, Blake, Tetlak, Piotr, Bissiere, Stephanie, Stern, Claudio D., Sakkas, Denny and Plachta, Nicolas (2023). The nuclear lamina couples mechanical forces to cell fate in the preimplantation embryo via actin organization. Nature Communications, 14 (1) 3101, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-38770-5
Alvarez, Yanina and Smutny, Michael (2022). Emerging Role of Mechanical Forces in Cell Fate Acquisition. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10 864522, 1-7. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.864522
Lim, Hui Yi Grace, Alvarez, Yanina D., Gasnier, Maxime, Wang, Yiming, Tetlak, Piotr, Bissiere, Stephanie, Wang, Hongmei, Biro, Maté and Plachta, Nicolas (2020). Keratins are asymmetrically inherited fate determinants in the mammalian embryo. Nature, 585 (7825), 404-409. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2647-4
De Rossi, María Cecilia, González Bardeci, Nicolás, Álvarez, Yanina, Mocskos, Esteban, Romero, Juan José, Bruno, Luciana, Wetzler, Diana Elena and Levi, Valeria (2020). Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy reveals the dynamics of kinesins interacting with organelles during microtubule-dependent transport in cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research, 1867 (1) 118572, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2019.118572
Cosentino, María Soledad, Oses, Camila, Vázquez Echegaray, Camila, Solari, Claudia, Waisman, Ariel, Álvarez, Yanina, Petrone, María Victoria, Francia, Marcos, Schultz, Marcelo, Sevlever, Gustavo, Miriuka, Santiago, Levi, Valeria and Guberman, Alejandra (2019). Kat6b Modulates Oct4 and Nanog Binding to Chromatin in Embryonic Stem Cells and Is Required for Efficient Neural Differentiation. Journal of Molecular Biology, 431 (6), 1148-1159. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.02.012
Verneri, Paula, Jose Romero, Juan, Cecilia De Rossi, Maria, Alvarez, Yanina, Oses, Camila, Guberman, Alejandra and Levi, Valeria (2018). Imaging transcription factors dynamics with advanced fluorescence microscopy methods. Mechanisms of Development, 154, 60-63. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2018.05.003
Zenker, Jennifer, White, Melanie D., Gasnier, Maxime, Alvarez, Yanina D., Lim, Hui Yi Grace, Bissiere, Stephanie, Biro, Maté and Plachta, Nicolas (2018). Expanding actin rings zipper the mouse embryo for blastocyst formation. Cell, 173 (3), 776-791.e17. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.035
Zhao, Ziqing Winston, White, Melanie D., Alvarez, Yanina D., Zenker, Jennifer, Bissiere, Stephanie and Plachta, Nicolas (2017). Quantifying transcription factor-DNA binding in single cells in vivo with photoactivatable fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Nature Protocols, 12 (7), 1458-1471. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2017.051
Moya-Díaz, José, Álvarez, Yanina D., Montenegro, Mauricio, Bayonés, Lucas, Belingheri, Ana V., González-Jamett, Arlek M., Cárdenas, Ana M. and Marengo, Fernando D. (2016). Sustained Exocytosis after Action Potential-Like Stimulation at Low Frequencies in Mouse Chromaffin Cells Depends on a Dynamin-Dependent Fast Endocytotic Process. Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 10 184, 1-19. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2016.00184
White, Melanie D., Angiolini, Juan F., Alvarez, Yanina D., Kaur, Gurpreet, Zhao, Ziqing W., Mocskos, Esteban, Bruno, Luciana, Bissiere, Stephanie, Levi, Valeria and Plachta, Nicolas (2016). Long-lived binding of Sox2 to DNA predicts cell fate in the four-cell mouse embryo. Cell, 165 (1), 75-87. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.032
Samarage, Chaminda R., White, Melanie D., Álvarez, Yanina D., Fierro-González, Juan Carlos, Henon, Yann, Jesudason, Edwin C., Bissiere, Stephanie, Fouras, Andreas and Plachta, Nicolas (2015). Cortical tension allocates the first inner cells of the mammalian embryo. Developmental Cell, 34 (4) 3367, 435-47. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.07.004
Alvarez, Yanina D., Fauerbach, Jonathan A., Pellegrotti, Jesica V., Jovin, Thomas M., Jares-Erijman, Elizabeth A. and Stefani, Fernando D. (2013). Influence of Gold Nanoparticles on the Kinetics of alpha-Synuclein Aggregation. Nano Letters, 13 (12), 6156-6163. doi: 10.1021/nl403490e
Álvarez, Yanina D., Belingheri, Ana Verónica, Perez Bay, Andrés E., Javis, Scott E., Tedford, H. William, Zamponi, Gerald and Marengo, Fernando D. (2013). The Immediately Releasable Pool of Mouse Chromaffin Cell Vesicles Is Coupled to P/Q-Type Calcium Channels via the Synaptic Protein Interaction Site. PLoS ONE, 8 (1) e54846, e54846. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054846
Perez Bay, A. E., Belingheri, A. V., Álvarez, Y. D. and Marengo, F. D. (2012). Membrane cycling after the excess retrieval mode of rapid endocytosis in mouse chromaffin cells. Acta Physiologica, 204 (3), 403-418. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.2011.02340.x
Alvarez, Yanina D. and Marengo, Fernando D. (2011). The immediately releasable vesicle pool: highly coupled secretion in chromaffin and other neuroendocrine cells. Journal of Neurochemistry, 116 (2), 155-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.07108.x
Álvarez, Yanina D., Ibañez, Lorena I., Uchitel, Osvaldo D. and Marengo, Fernando D. (2008). P/Q Ca2+ channels are functionally coupled to exocytosis of the immediately releasable pool in mouse chromaffin cells. Cell Calcium, 43 (2), 155-164. doi: 10.1016/j.ceca.2007.04.014