Cells clean themselves regularly and respond to stress to survive and stay fit. Autophagy is a cell recycling system that collects harmful material and either gets rid of it or reprocesses it into beneficial components. The cell should control autophagy tightly or diseases arise. We want to know more about genes that control the autophagy switch to have better targets in treating diseases.

Eggs (and Sperms) are very specialized cells. When they come together, they give rise to an embryo, that goes on to make all kind of cells in in the body of an animal including the eggs and the sperms that give rise to next generation and keep the circle of life going. A fundamental question in biology is to understand how the specialized cells egg gets modified in to cells of an embryo that can become anything and also the egg.

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