# First person – Victoria Hyland

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how Ccn2a influences joint formation during zebrafish fin regeneration, as explored by Victoria Hyland in her PhD research.

## Contribution

The study reveals a new role for Ccn2a downstream of cx43 in joint formation during zebrafish fin regeneration.

## Key findings

- Ccn2a acts downstream of cx43 to influence joint formation during zebrafish fin regeneration.
- The research contributes to understanding skeletal patterning coordination in zebrafish.

## 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.