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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.

(2024) Development "The people behind the papers - Alyshia Scholl, Yihong Liu and Geraldine Seydoux."

[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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Susan Mango is Benning Professor of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah and an Investigator at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. She grew up in England and Washington D.C. before attending Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton, where she studied the c-myc oncogene with Michael Cole. She was introduced to the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a postdoc with Judith Kimble at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and moved to Utah in 1996 to start her own lab. After 13 years at the University of Utah, she will move to Harvard University in July 2009. Her principal focus is transcriptional strategies of organ development, using the C. elegans foregut as a model.