Ko, JasonLobo, Daniel2024-06-112024-06-112024-05-09Ko, Jason, and Daniel Lobo. “The People behind the Papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo.” Development 151, no. 9 (May 9, 2024): dev202987. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202987.https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202987http://hdl.handle.net/11603/34579Planarians grow when they are fed and shrink during periods of starvation. However, it is unclear how they maintain appropriate body proportions as their size changes. A new paper in Development investigates the differences between growth and shrinkage dynamics and builds a mathematical model to explore the mechanisms underpinning these two processes. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author, Jason Ko, and corresponding author, Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.en-USJason KoUMBC Biological Sciences DepartmentDaniel Lobocomputational and molecular techniquescomputational and molecular methodinteractions between genetic signals and tissueText