PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE ED - , TI - The people behind the papers – Awais Javed and Michel Cayouette AID - 10.1242/dev.196469 DP - 2020 Sep 15 TA - Development PG - dev196469 VI - 147 IP - 18 4099 - http://dev.biologists.org/content/147/18/dev196469.short 4100 - http://dev.biologists.org/content/147/18/dev196469.full SO - Development2020 Sep 15; 147 AB - The mammalian retina contains a variety of functionally distinct cell types that are generated by progenitor cells in a specific chronological order. A new paper in Development probes the role of the POU-homeodomain factors Pou2f1 and Pou2f2 in the timely generation of cone photoreceptors in mice. We caught up with first author and PhD student Awais Javed and his supervisor Michel Cayouette (Director of the Cellular Neurobiology Research Unit at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, Professor at the Université de Montréal and Adjunct Professor at McGill University) to hear more about their work.