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We want to understand in physical and molecular terms how cells talk to each other during development. We are interested in the signaling events that control tissue growth – how is the shape and final size of a tissue achieved during embryogenesis? We focus on two types of proliferation modes: growth control by morphogen gradients and asymmetric cell division in stem cells. We do this using two model systems, Drosophila and zebrafish.