An interview with Abigail Tucker.

نویسنده

  • Catarina Vicente
چکیده

Abigail Tucker is a professor at King's College London, UK and her lab works on various aspects of craniofacial development - from basic, evolutionary and clinical biology perspectives. This year, Abigail will be awarded the first Cheryll Tickle Medal by the British Society for Developmental Biology (BSDB). We chatted with Abigail about her research, her commitment to public engagement and the challenges and rewards of working with emerging model systems.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Development

دوره 143 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016