{Reference Type}: Interview
{Title}: Pathway to Independence - an interview with Girish Kale.
{Journal}: Development
{Volume}: 151
{Issue}: 15
{Year}: 2024 Aug 1
{Factor}: 6.862
{DOI}: 10.1242/dev.204225
{Abstract}: Girish Kale joined the labs of Thomas Lecuit and Pierre-Francois Lenne at IBDM, Marseille, France for his PhD, where he studied cell mechanics and early development in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. After a 2 year postdoc in Bengaluru, India, he joined Steffen Lemke's lab, which recently moved from Heidelberg to the Department of Zoology at the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. His main research interest lies in understanding the effect of temperature on (early) embryonic development. Girish is one of Development's Pathway to Independence Programme Fellows, and we caught up with him to find out what drives and excites him, and what he hopes to achieve in his own lab.