Lesley Weaver discussed becoming a researcher, her views on science, and more in an interview for Current Biology's Q & A feature.
Weaver is an assistant professor in Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology. She studies how inter-organ communication downstream of nuclear receptor signaling influences oogenesis, using the ovary of fruit flies as her model.
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