Abstract
ABSTRACT Yanlan Mao graduated in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, followed by a PhD in developmental biology and genetics at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB), Cambridge, UK. During this time, she studied cell signalling and epithelial patterning in Drosophila, under the supervision of Matthew Freeman. For her postdoctoral research, Yanlan moved to the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now part of the Francis Crick Institute), to study the role of mechanical forces in the orientation of cell division and cell shape control in Nic Tapon's laboratory. She established her own research group in 2014 at the MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology (MRC-LMCB), University College London, where she addresses the importance of tissue mechanics during development, homeostasis and repair. She was awarded a L'Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Fellowship and the Lister Institute Research Prize in 2018. In 2019, she was awarded the Biophysical Society Early Career Award in Mechanobiology and also became part of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Yanlan is the recipient of the 2020 Women in Cell Biology Early Career Award Medal from the British Society for Cell Biology (BSCB).
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