Teresa Rayon

Teresa Rayon is a Tenure-Track Group Leader at the Babraham Institute in the Epigenetics and Signalling Programmes since February 2022. She obtained her MSc in Biology from the Autónoma University of Madrid in 2007. For her PhD at Miguel Manzanares’ group at CNIC in Madrid, Teresa studied the first cell fate choice in mammalian pre-implantation development. In 2016, she joined the Briscoe lab supported by an EMBO postdoctoral fellowship. For her postdoc, she compared human and mouse neural tube development and established in vitro motor neuron differentiation models from mouse and human embryonic stem cells to investigate developmental tempo. In 2022 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant to start her Comparative Stem Cell Dynamics lab (https://rayonlab.org/) in Cambridge. Her lab studies the regulatory and dynamic processes that control timing in development and homeostasis.