The people behind the papers – Lisa Conrad, Steve Runser, Roman Vetter and Dagmar Iber

Abstract

Epithelial tubes perform crucial functions in various organs, providing routes for the transport of fluids and gases. A new paper in Development addresses the question of how epithelial tubes elongate during development, using a combination of mouse organ culture and mathematical modelling. To find out more about the work, we met four of its authors: PhD students Lisa Conrad and Steven Runser, senior scientist Roman Vetter, and their supervisor Dagmar Iber, Professor in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich.