School of Cancer Sciences

Dr Alessandro Brombin

  • Teaching Fellow (MVLS Education Hub)
  • Affiliate-Laura Richmond (School of Cancer Sciences)

Publications

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2026

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, McMaster, Stephanie, Travnickova, Jana, Brunsdon, Hannah, Ramsey, Emma, Nhung Vu, Hong, Steingrimsson, Eirikur, Kenny, Colin, Chandra, Tamir and Patton, E.Elizabeth (2026) Loss of MITF activity leads to emergent cell states from the melanocyte stem cell lineage. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2025.12.23.695681)

2024

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248 and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2024) Melanocyte lineage dynamics in development, growth and disease. Development, 151(15), dev201266. (doi: 10.1242/dev.201266) (PMID:39092608) (PMCID:PMC11317096)

2022

Travnickova, Jana, Muise, Sarah, Wojciechowska, Sonia, Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Zeng, Zhiqiang, Young, Adelaide I. J., Wyatt, Cameron and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Fate mapping melanoma persister cells through regression and into recurrent disease in adult zebrafish. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 15(9), dmm049566. (doi: 10.1242/dmm.049566) (PMID:35929478) (PMCID:PMC9509888)

Brunsdon, Hannah, Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Peterson, Samuel, Postlethwait, John H. and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Aldh2 is a lineage-specific metabolic gatekeeper in melanocyte stem cells. Development, 149(10), dev200277. (doi: 10.1242/dev.200277) (PMID:35485397) (PMCID:PMC9188749)

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Simpson, Daniel J., Travnickova, Jana, Brunsdon, Hannah, Zeng, Zhiqiang, Lu, Yuting, Young, Adelaide I.J., Chandra, Tamir and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Tfap2b specifies an embryonic melanocyte stem cell that retains adult multifate potential. Cell Reports, 38(2), 110234. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110234) (PMID:35021087) (PMCID:PMC8764619)

2020

Johansson, J. A. et al. (2020) PRL3-DDX21 transcriptional control of endolysosomal genes restricts melanocyte stem cell differentiation. Developmental Cell, 54(3), pp. 317-332. (doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.013) (PMID:32652076) (PMCID:PMC7435699)

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Number of items: 6.

Articles

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, McMaster, Stephanie, Travnickova, Jana, Brunsdon, Hannah, Ramsey, Emma, Nhung Vu, Hong, Steingrimsson, Eirikur, Kenny, Colin, Chandra, Tamir and Patton, E.Elizabeth (2026) Loss of MITF activity leads to emergent cell states from the melanocyte stem cell lineage. bioRxiv, (doi: 10.64898/2025.12.23.695681)

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248 and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2024) Melanocyte lineage dynamics in development, growth and disease. Development, 151(15), dev201266. (doi: 10.1242/dev.201266) (PMID:39092608) (PMCID:PMC11317096)

Travnickova, Jana, Muise, Sarah, Wojciechowska, Sonia, Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Zeng, Zhiqiang, Young, Adelaide I. J., Wyatt, Cameron and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Fate mapping melanoma persister cells through regression and into recurrent disease in adult zebrafish. Disease Models and Mechanisms, 15(9), dmm049566. (doi: 10.1242/dmm.049566) (PMID:35929478) (PMCID:PMC9509888)

Brunsdon, Hannah, Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Peterson, Samuel, Postlethwait, John H. and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Aldh2 is a lineage-specific metabolic gatekeeper in melanocyte stem cells. Development, 149(10), dev200277. (doi: 10.1242/dev.200277) (PMID:35485397) (PMCID:PMC9188749)

Brombin, Alessandro ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-9248, Simpson, Daniel J., Travnickova, Jana, Brunsdon, Hannah, Zeng, Zhiqiang, Lu, Yuting, Young, Adelaide I.J., Chandra, Tamir and Patton, E. Elizabeth (2022) Tfap2b specifies an embryonic melanocyte stem cell that retains adult multifate potential. Cell Reports, 38(2), 110234. (doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.110234) (PMID:35021087) (PMCID:PMC8764619)

Johansson, J. A. et al. (2020) PRL3-DDX21 transcriptional control of endolysosomal genes restricts melanocyte stem cell differentiation. Developmental Cell, 54(3), pp. 317-332. (doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2020.06.013) (PMID:32652076) (PMCID:PMC7435699)

This list was generated on Sun Oct 11 04:54:32 2026 BST.

Teaching

MSc Precision Medicine (Deputy Lead)

MSc Cancer Research with Specialisms (Specialism Lead)

 

Courses:

BIOL5469 - Precision Genomics (Semester 1)

BIOL5379 - Data Analysis and Interpretation for Bioinformatics (Semester 2)

BIOL5465 - Single-Cell and Spatial Omics for Biologists (Semester 2)

BIOL5443 - Biomedical Image Analysis with Applications using AI/ML (Semester 2)

BIOL5466 - Fundamentals of Experimental Design and Data Analysis (Semester 2)

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2025: Team Award (University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Awards)

Research fellowships

  • 2014 - 2015: PhD Grant of the “Fondation pour la Recherche Medicale”
  • 2011 - 2014: PhD Grant of the French Ministry for Research and Higher Education

Selected international presentations

  • 2024: One Health Genomics ECR Network (Edinburgh (UK))
  • 2024: Developmental Biology seminar series of the University of Manchester (Manchester (UK))
  • 2022: Meeting of the International Melanoma Network (Naples (Italy))
  • 2021: Zebrafish Disease Model Society meeting – RIG Cancer (Online)
  • 2021: European Society for Pigment Cell Research (Online)
  • 2019: Zebrafish Disease Model Meeting 12 (ZDM12) (Boston (USA))
  • 2013: 8th European Zebrafish meeting (Barcelona (Spain))

Supplementary

  • Recepient of the "Company of Biologists Meeting Grant" Organiser of the Pre-SMR Trainee Meeting (Society for Melanoma Research; 2023 - Philadelphia, USA; 2024 - New Orleans, USA)