For the past 2 years, our community blog the Node has run a series of interviews with authors of exciting new papers in developmental biology. This series, 'The people behind the papers', aims to promote the faces and personalities behind research, and to hear more about how the work came about; you can see the back catalogue of over 50 interviews at thenode.biologists.com/tag/the-people-behind-the-papers To extend the reach of these interviews, we will now publish them in Development, starting

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... with a paper from our current issue that reveals an unexpected role for the Hippo pathway effector Taz in zebrafish fertilisation. First author and PhD student Chaitanya Dingare and his supervisor Virginie Lecaudey, Professor for Developmental Biology of Vertebrates at the Goethe University of Frankfurt in Germany, told us more about the story.