selected publications 

-2025 Jascinta P. Santavanond, Georgia K. Atkin-Smith, Irene-Gonzalez Lozano, Joan Roncero-Carol, ......, Ivan K, H. Poon* and Esteban Hoijman*. Resident phagocytes promote non-cell-autonomous fragmentation of apoptotic cells. Science Advances, In press. *Corresponding author. 

-2025 Joan Roncero-Carol, June Olaizola-Muñoa, Begoña Arán, Loris Sebastiano Mularoni, Marta Miret Cuesta, Nuria Blanco-Cabra, Marc Casals, Mireia Rumbo, Miquel Solé Inarejos, Samuel Ojosnegros, Berta Alsina, Eduard Torrents, Anna Veiga, Manuel Irimia and Esteban Hoijman*. 
Epithelial cells provide immunocompetence to the early embryo for bacterial clearance.
Cell Host and Microbe, 33(7):1106-1120.e8. *Corresponding author. 

-2021 Esteban Hoijman*, Hanna Hakkinen, Queralt Tolosa, Senda Jiménez-Delgado, Chris Wyatt, Marta Miret Cuesta, Manuel Irimia, Andrew Callan-Jones, Stefan Wieser* and Verena Ruprecht*. 
Cooperative epithelial phagocytosis enables early embryonic error correction.
Nature, 590:618–623. *Corresponding author. 

-2017 Esteban Hoijman*, Laura Fargas, Patrick Blader and Berta Alsina*.
Pioneer neurog1 expressing cells ingress in the otic primordium and instruct neural specification.
eLife, 24;6. pii: e25543. *Corresponding author.

-2015 Esteban Hoijman*, Davide Rubbini, Julien Colombelli and Berta Alsina*.
Mitotic cell rounding and epithelial thinning regulate lumen growth and shape.
Nature Communications, 6:7355. *Corresponding author.