The people behind the papers – Jae-In Lee, Sumin Park and Kwang-Min Choe

For effective immune function, the precursors of haemocytes - blood cells - have to be properly maintained in the fly lymph gland. Papilin is an abundant glycoprotein in the extracellular matrix of the lymph gland. Here, Kwang-Min Choe and colleagues uncover the role of Papilin in maintaining the haematopoietic progenitor pool. To find out more about the people behind this work, we caught up with the first authors Jae-In Lee and Sumin Park, and the corresponding author Kwang-Min Choe, Professor at Yonsei University, South Korea.