RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The people behind the papers – Awais Javed and Michel Cayouette
JF Development
JO Development
FD The Company of Biologists Limited
SP dev196469
DO 10.1242/dev.196469
VO 147
IS 18
YR 2020
UL http://dev.biologists.org/content/147/18/dev196469.abstract
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.