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Development,
2024]
Germ granules have been hypothesized to deliver mRNAs of germ cell fate determinants to primordial germ cells. Now, a new study in Development finds that many mRNAs enriched in germ granules are not involved in germline development in Caenorhabditis elegans. To find out more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Alyshia Scholl, second author Yihong Liu and corresponding author Geraldine Seydoux, Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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Development,
2024]
Male pheromones accelerate the development of hermaphrodite larvae in Caenorhabditis elegans, but the importance of this phenomenon is not well understood. A new paper in Development shows that pheromone exposure during larval stage 3 helps coordinate behaviour and development by modulating the timing of the transition to larval stage 4. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author Denis Faerberg who carried out the work in the lab of the corresponding author Ilya Ruvinsky at Northwestern University, USA.
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Development,
2025]
Dominique Bergmann completed her PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, studying left-right asymmetry in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Her interest in cell geometry and organisation led her into the field of plant development, and she carried out postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institution before establishing her own lab at Stanford University, USA. Dominique is now a Professor of Biology at Stanford and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She has been an Editor at Development since 2023. We caught up with Dominique over Zoom to find out more about her research in the field of stomatal development, her role as an Editor, and how her passion for comparative biology has influenced her career.