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Interviews

All our (and Development’s) interviews in one place.

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The people behind the papers – Priyanka Govindaraju and Enrico Scarpella

Posted by , on 12 December 2020

This interview, the 84th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  The veins are the vascular networks of plant leaves, functioning as channels for transport of signals and nutrients. …

The people behind the papers – Olga Zaytseva and Leonie Quinn

Posted by , on 1 December 2020

This interview, the 83rd in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Unregulated cell proliferation can be disastrous for development and underlies the progression of cancers throughout the lifespan. A …

An interview with Dawei Sun

Posted by , on 24 November 2020

  Dawei Sun has just finished his PhD in Dr Emma Rawlins’ lab at The Gurdon Institute here in Cambridge, UK. He has remained in the city with his wife …

The people behind the papers – Agnes Cheong and Jesse Mager

Posted by , on 21 November 2020

This interview, the 82nd in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Nuclear-encoded mitochondrial ribosomal proteins (MRPs) are crucial for mitochondrial function and hence cellular energy production. A new paper …

The people behind the papers – Daniel Osborn, Kuoyu Li and Simon Hughes

Posted by , on 10 November 2020

This interview, the 81st in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  A crucial step in vertebrate muscle development is the activation of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) that direct myogenesis. …

The people behind the papers – Megha Agarwal, Akashi Sharma, Pankaj Kumar, Amit Kumar and Sam Mathew

Posted by , on 24 October 2020

This interview, the 80th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Myosin is a major component of the sarcomeres of muscle, but its roles during muscle development are still …

In 2019 we met Vilaiwan Fernandes, who had recently been awared the Santa Cruz Developmental Biology Young Investigator Award

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