Dr. Sarah Kucenas originally became interested in zebrafish when her graduate mentor, Dr. Mark Voigt of Saint Louis University, offered her a choice of two graduate projects: looking at the role of P2X receptors in neurotransmission using mice/cell culture, which was more typical of his lab, or looking at the role of P2X receptors in development using zebrafish. Although Dr. Voigt had no experience with zebrafish, Kucenas was intrigued, so she took the plunge...