The people behind the papers - Degisew Yinur Mengistu and Laura Ciapponi.

Autosomal recessive primary microcephaly is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by a smaller brain size, resulting from a reduced number of neurons. In their work, Laura Ciapponi, Patrizia Somma and colleagues uncover the function of two microcephaly-associated genes, asp and sas4, in chromatin epigenetic control and nuclear lamina structure. To learn more about their work, we talked to the first author, Degisew Yinur Mengistu, as well as the corresponding author, Laura Ciapponi, Associate Professor, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.