The people behind the papers – Baosheng Zeng and Jianjun Sun

The GATA-family transcription factors are known to regulate professional phagocyte function, but it is unclear whether they also promote phagocytosis in non-professional phagocytes. In a new study, Jianjun Sun and colleagues find that the GATA factor Serpent promotes the phagocytic capacity of follicle cells - non-professional phagocytes - during Drosophila oogenesis. To find out more about the people behind the paper, we caught up with the first author Baosheng Zeng and the corresponding author Jianjun Sun, Professor at the University of Connecticut, USA.