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Interviews

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

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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 …

The people behind the papers – Caroline Johnson and Troy Ghashghaei

Posted by , on 15 October 2020

This interview, the 79th in our series, was published in Development earlier this year.  Cortical development involves a switch from the self-amplification of stem cells to the generation of neuron and glia …

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 …

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

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