Aisha Al-Janabi

Hei Ming Lai (left) is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China) and is a psychiatrist–neuroscientist whose work focuses on developing and applying 3D histology techniques in both basic research and clinical diagnostics. His team uses multidisciplinary approaches to engineer novel technologies for structural–molecular–functional mapping of tissues from both humans and animals.

Scientists reveal the molecular mechanisms behind each stage of the predatory switch that the fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora (A. oligospora) undergoes in the presence of nematodes while under nutritional starvation. Predator–prey relationships are often considered stable, but resource scarcity can prompt the hunted to become the hunters. In the Ascomycota phylum, nutritional starvation triggers a shift resulting in traps being formed in the presence of nematodes.

Andrew Gaetano (left) is a recent graduate of St. Norbert College (WI, USA) and was involved in molecular biology and genetics research with Ryan King. In his final year in the King Lab, he was working to optimize in situ hybridization for time and efficiency and developed a protocol that was recently published in BioTechniques, which he discusses in this ‘Peek behind paper’. Currently, Andrew is pursuing a career in medicine. Ryan King (right) is an Associate Professor at St. Norbert College.