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Interviews

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

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The people behind the papers – Chase Bryan and Kristen Kwan

Posted by , on 30 September 2020

This interview, the 78th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Optic cup development involves a series of intricate cell and tissue movements, and cells’ interaction with the extracellular …

An interview with Trudi Schüpbach

Posted by , on 7 September 2020

Last October I had the great pleasure of interviewing Trudi Schüpbach for Development in Buenos Aires. We were at the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology meeting (check out the …

The people behind the papers – Xin Zhu, Yiquan Wang and Guang Li

Posted by , on 26 August 2020

This interview, the 77th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  During development, the establishment of directional left-right (L-R) asymmetry is crucial for the correct positioning of …

A day in the life of a returning Spider Lab

Posted by , on 14 July 2020

Alistair McGregor’s group at Oxford Brookes University uses Drosophila and the common house spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum to understand how different shapes and sizes of animals evolve. Back in 2016, two …

Salah Elias introduces a new virtual forum for early PIs in cell and developmental biology

Posted by , on 29 June 2020

Of the many virtual seminar series that have sprung up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, one in particular caught our eye – the New PIs in Cell and Developmental …

The people behind the papers – Charles Sheehan, John McMahon and Debby Silver

Posted by , on 27 May 2020

This interview, the 76th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Interneurons are crucial to cortical function and their dysregulation has been implicated in various neurological pathologies, …

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

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