First person – Victoria Hyland

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Victoria Hyland is first author on ‘ Ccn2a acts downstream of cx43 to influence joint formation during zebrafish fin regeneration’, published in BIO. Victoria is a PhD Student in the lab of Dr M. Kathryn Iovine at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA, investigating the tight coordination of skeletal patterning in zebrafish.