ACADEMIC CV
Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
2020-present Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
California, USA. Mentor: Nicole King
2019-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow
Aix-Marseille University, Faculty of Sciences, Marseille, France. Mentor:
Thomas Lecuit
2014-2018 PhD student
Aix-Marseille University, Faculty of Sciences, Marseille, France. Mentor:
Thomas Lecuit
2014-2018 Ph.D. in Developmental Biology. Aix-Marseille University-Faculty of Sciences, Marseille, France.
2012-2014 Master's in Development and Immunology. Aix-Marseille University-Faculty of Sciences, Marseille, France.
2009-2012 Bachelor's in Cell Biology. Aix-Marseille University-Faculty of Sciences, Marseille,
France.
2026 Honorable Mention Postdoctoral Presentation Award, Hilde Mangold Symposium, Society for Developmental Biology 85ᵗʰ Annual Meeting
2021-2023 HFSP Long-term Fellowship from the Human Frontier Science Program
2014-2018 PhD Fellowship from the French Ministry of Higher Education
2016 Best Oral Presentation Award, Doctoral School Symposium - 24th Edition
2014 Master’s degree awarded with Highest Distinction and Honors, Aix-Marseille University
2012 Bachelor’s degree awarded with Highest Distinction and Honors, Aix-Marseille University
2012-2014 Merit scholarship from the French Ministry of Higher Education
1. Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Gonzalez S., King N. An adhesion GPCR regulates cell adhesion and mating in the closest living relatives of metazoans. BioRxiv 2026.06.27.734982; doi: 10.64898/2026.06.27.734982
2. Langenhan T., Anderson G.R., Araç D., Aust G., Avila-Zozaya M., Bagger S.M., Barth P., Berndt S., Blacklow S.C., Blanco-Redondo B., Boucard A.A., Bridges J., Brodmerkel L.-S., Caron K.M., Chung Y.K., Dates A.N., de Araujo Farias V., Del Toro D., Duman J.G., Engel
F.B., Favara D.M., Formstone C.J., Fu C., Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Georgiadi A., Gloriam D.E., Hall R.A., Hamann J., Hildebrand P.W., Hsiao C.-C., Huang B.X., Javitch J.A., Kim H.-Y., Kittel R.J., Kleinau G., Leduc R., Liebscher I., Lin H.-H., Linnert J., Ludwig M.-G.,
Martinelli D.C., Mathiasen S., Matúš D., Melkumyan M., Moreno-Salinas A.L., Mulder J.,
Nash M.A., Pal K., Pederick D.T., Perry-Hauser N.A., Piao X., Ping Y.-Q., Placantonakis
D.G., Pohl F., Prömel S., Rosenkilde M.M., Sabbagh L., Sando R.C., Scheerer P.,
Schöneberg T., Seiradake E., Selcho M., Seufert ., Singh A.K., Skiniotis G., Spiess K.,
Sträter N., Strutt D., Südhof T.C., Sun J., Tall G.G., Thor D., Tilley D.G., Tolias K.F., Vallon M., Van Meir E.G., Vanhollebeke B., Wiggin G.R., Wolfrum U., Yan J., Zaidman N.A., Zou Y., Scholz N. Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors. Pharmacol. Rev. 2025. doi:
10.1016/j.pharmr.2026.100116
3. Garcia De Las Bayonas A. and King N. 2025. G protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of Metazoa. eLife14:RP107467. doi:
10.7554/eLife.107467.3
4. Hake KH, West PT, McDonald K, Laundon D, Reyes-Rivera J, Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Feng C., Burkhardt P., Richter DJ., Banfield JF., King N. 2024. A large colonial choanoflagellate from Mono Lake harbors live bacteria. mBio 15:e01623-24. doi:
10.1128/mbio.01623-24
5. Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Philippe JM., Lellouch AC., Lecuit T. Distinct RhoGEFs activate apical and junctional actomyosin contractility under control of G proteins during epithelial morphogenesis. Curr. Bio. 2019 Sep 29 (20):3370-3385. e7 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.017
6. Lellouch AC., Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Lecuit T. Strengthen Your Junctions to Resist the Force. Dev. Cell. 2018 Nov 19 (47):406-407. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.11.007
7. Kerridge S., Munjal A., Philippe JM., Jha A., Garcia De Las Bayonas A., Saurin AJ., Lecuit T. Modular activation of Rho1 by GPCR signaling imparts polarized myosin II activation during morphogenesis. Nat Cell Bio. 2016 Mar 18(3):261-70 doi: 10.1038/ncb3302
¹invited Speaker ²Talk selected from Abstract Submission ³ Also Chaired session
2026 Society for Developmental Biology 85ᵗʰ Annual Meeting², Las Vegas, NV, US
2025 10th Choanoflagellates and Friends Conference², Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2024 11th Adhesion GPCR Workshop²˒³, Mexico City, Mexico
2024 MAYosis Conference 2024², Webinar series
2023 Cell Bio 2023 ASCB | EMBO Meeting², Boston, MA, USA
2023 SDB Ethel Browne Harvey Postdoctoral Seminar Series², Virtual Meeting
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbEdN6aNjnE
2023 International Choanoflagellate & Friends Workshop 2023²˒³, Berkeley & San Francisco, CA,USA
2023 Cilia Super Group¹, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
2023 SMBE Everywhere GS10: Genetics and Evolution of Sex Differences², Virtual Meeting
2022 GGED Annual Research Conference & Retreat², Asilomar, CA, USA
2022 10th Adhesion GPCR Workshop², Copenhagen, Denmark
2021 HHMI Science Meeting², Virtual Meeting
2021 CDB Annual Research Conference & Retreat², Berkeley, CA, USA
2017 2nd Meeting of the FSER Laureates¹, Imagine Institut, Paris, France
2025 10th Choanoflagellates and Friends Conference, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
2024 HHMI Science Meeting 2024 – HHMI's Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA, USA
2022 HHMI Science Meeting 2022 – HHMI’s Headquarters Campus, Chevy Chase, MA, USA
2021 20th HFSP Awardees Meeting – Virtual meeting
2021 GGD Annual Research Conference – Berkeley, CA USA
2018 Physics of Living Matter – 13th edition – Marseille, France
2016 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Meeting – CA, USA
2016 SFBD International Meeting “Shaping Life” – Marseille, France
2015 “Quantitative Biology of Signaling”, Labex INFORM International Conference –
Institut d'Etudes scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica
2026 Guest lecturer, "Weird Organisms in Cell Biology", March 2026. CMB 512S,
Department of Biology, Duke
2024 Guest lecturer, "Weird Organisms in Cell Biology", March 2024. CMB 512S,
Department of Biology, Duke
2023 Guest lecturer, "Evolution of sex and recombination", November 2023. MCB 143,
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Berkeley
2023 Teaching assistant, MBL Physiology 2023 – Research Session 1, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Worked directly with graduate students and postdocs to help them design and execute research projects.
2022 Teaching assistant, MBL Physiology 2022 – Research Session 2, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Worked directly with graduate students and postdocs to help them design and execute research projects.
2014-2017 Undergraduate Student Instructor, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Supervised first-year bachelor students on the practical course « Identification of a recombinant plasmid by restriction map and PCR »
2026 Science (1) - Role: Reviewer
2019 eLife (1) - Role: Reviewer
2018 "Profession Chercheur”, Podcast interview (hosts: Nicolas Chevassus, Philippe Hert, and Jérôme Matéo), Marseille
2017 March for Science, Marseille – Supervised a DNA extraction workshop and gave a public talk: "On serendipity in science".
2017 Café des Sciences, Avignon – Gave a public talk: «Cellules en marche, cellules insoumises » (an introduction to Cell Biology for non-scientists)
2015 Molecular Biology Workshop, Primary school, Redon, Marseille – Supervised primary school students to perform DNA extraction from fruits.
2026 Norrie White, Laboratory technician, University of California, Berkeley
2026 Stefany Gonzalez, Laboratory technician, University of California, Berkeley
2022 Ann Matthew, Laboratory technician, University of California, Berkeley
2021 Michael Carver, Graduate student, University of California, Berkeley