An interview with Tyler Huycke

Abstract

Tyler Huycke is a postdoctoral researcher in Zev Gartner's and Ophir Klein's labs at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he studies the relationship between mechanics and tissue patterning during gut morphogenesis. Tyler served as an editor for the Journal of Emerging Investigators and as a student co-leader of the developmental and regenerative biology graduate programme at Harvard University. He was awarded the Young Investigator's Award at the 2022 Santa Cruz Developmental Biology (SCDB) meeting, which celebrates outstanding early career researchers. I caught up with Tyler at the SCDB meeting to discuss the award, his research and his career.