The people behind the papers - Yuuta Moriyama and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg.

The temporal and spatial expression of Hox genes has been implicated in the establishment of the body plan. In their work, Yuuta Moriyama and colleagues find that spatiotemporally ordered expression of Hoxb genes regulates dynamic cell surface fluctuations during early gastrulation in zebrafish. To know more about their work, we spoke to the first and corresponding author, Yuuta Moriyama, Assistant Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, and Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria, where the project began.