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The people behind the papers – Qiongxuan Lu, Yuan Gao and Bo Dong

Posted by , on 21 June 2021

This interview, the 92nd in our series, was published in Development last year.  In many animal embryos, the tail bends ventrally as it grows, but the underlying mechanisms driving this multi-tissue deformation ...

New PIs in a global pandemic: a view from Hong Kong

Posted by , on 16 June 2021

Developmental biology is a global science, but Europe and the USA get a lot of the airtime, and it can be hard for those outside these regions to get support ...

An interview with Wajid Jawaid, 2020 BSDB Beddington Medal Winner

Posted by , on 22 April 2021

The Beddington Medal recognises the best PhD thesis in developmental biology

An interview with Cagney Coomer

Posted by , on 29 March 2021

This interview by Aidan Maartens was recently published in Development. Dr Cagney Coomer received her PhD with Ann Morris at the University of Kentucky, where she studied zebrafish retinal development ...

The people behind the papers – Zhi Ye and David Kimelman

Posted by , on 21 February 2021

This interview, the 91st in our series, was published in Development last year.  The anterior to posterior extension of the vertebrate body axis relies on a population of bipotent neuromesodermal progenitors in ...

The people behind the papers – Milica Bulajić, Divyanshi Srivastava, Esteban Mazzoni and Shaun Mahony

Posted by , on 12 February 2021

This interview, the 90th in our series, was published in Development last year.  Hox genes instruct positional identity along the anterior-posterior axis of the animal body. A new paper in Development addresses ...

The people behind the papers – Andrew Economou and Jeremy Green

Posted by , on 31 January 2021

This interview, the 89th in our series, was published in Development last year.  Interacting morphogens produce periodic patterns in developing tissues. Such patterning can be modelled as reaction-diffusion (RD) processes (as originally ...

The people behind the papers – Awais Javed and Michel Cayouette

Posted by , on 15 January 2021

This interview, the 88th in our series, was published in Development last year.  The mammalian retina contains a variety of functionally distinct cell types that are generated by progenitor cells in a ...

The people behind the papers – Emily Lo and Keiko Torii

Posted by , on 3 January 2021

This interview, the 87th in our series, was published in Development last year.  The patterning of stomata – the pores in the plant epidermis that facilitate gas exchange and water control – ...

The people behind the papers – Kayt Scott and Bruce Appel

Posted by , on 26 December 2020

This interview, the 86th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  In the developing spinal cord, progenitor cells sequentially give rise to motor neurons and precursors of one of ...

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