Future leader to watch – Eunice Tan

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Eunice Tan is first author on ‘ Motion: enhancing signals and concealing cues’, published in BiO. Eunice is Assistant Professor in the department of Environmental Studies, at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, investigating the ecological interactions between animals, their predators, and the environment.

First person – Sachiko Fujiwara

10.1242/jcs.251082 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (14) ◽

pp. jcs251082

Keyword(s):

Developmental Biology ◽

Graduate School ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Health Sciences ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Postdoctoral Fellow ◽

Collective Migration ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sachiko Fujiwara is first author on ‘Disease-associated keratin mutations reduce traction forces and compromise adhesion and collective migration’, published in JCS. Sachiko conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral fellow in Thomas M. Magin's lab at Institute of Biology, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, Leipzig University, Germany. She is now an assistant professor in the lab of Kazunori Imaizumi at the Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan, investigating the physiological roles of cytoskeletons.

First person – Mohammad Yunus Ansari

10.1242/jcs.256644 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (22) ◽

pp. jcs256644

Keyword(s):

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Research Assistant ◽

Cartilage Homeostasis ◽

Health And Disease ◽

Catabolic Response ◽

Medical University ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Mohammad Yunus Ansari is first author on ‘Mitochondrial dysfunction triggers a catabolic response in chondrocytes via ROS-mediated activation of the JNK/AP1 pathway’, published in JCS. Mohammad Yunus is a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Tariq M Haqqi, at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA, investigating the mechanism of regulation of mitochondrial function in articular cartilage and its role in cartilage homeostasis in health and disease.

First person – Takeshi Harada

10.1242/jcs.256024 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (21) ◽

pp. jcs256024

Keyword(s):

Graduate School ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Contact Sites ◽

School Of Medicine ◽

Mitochondrial Functions ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Takeshi Harada is first author on ‘Palmitoylated CKAP4 regulates mitochondrial functions through an interaction with VDAC2 at ER–mitochondria contact sites’, published in JCS. Takeshi is an assistant professor in the lab of Akira Kikuchi at the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan, investigating the role of CKAP4 at ER–mitochondria contact sites.

First person – Yuki Yoshino

10.1242/jcs.253153 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (17) ◽

pp. jcs253153

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Cancer Biology ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Aurora A ◽

Centriole Duplication ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yuki Yoshino is first author on ‘RACK1 regulates centriole duplication through promoting the activation of polo-like kinase 1 by Aurora A’, published in JCS. Yuki is an Assistant Professor in the lab of Natsuko Chiba at the Department of Cancer Biology, Institute of Aging, Development and Cancer, Tohoku University, Japan, investigating how BRCA1 dysfunction causes breast cancer.

First person – Yuka Kobayashi

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049369 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (11) ◽

Keyword(s):

Graduate School ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Photoreceptor Degeneration ◽

School Of Medicine ◽

Differential Gene ◽

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yuka Kobayashi is first author on ‘ Early manifestations and differential gene expression associated with photoreceptor degeneration in Prom1-deficient retina’, published in DMM. Yuka is assistant professor in the lab of Prof. Kazuhiro Kimura at Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, investigating ophthalmology.

First person – Koichiro Maki

10.1242/jcs.258329 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 134 (2) ◽

pp. jcs258329

Keyword(s):

Hydrostatic Pressure ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

Chondrocyte Differentiation ◽

First Person ◽

Medical Sciences ◽

Cellular Biomechanics ◽

The University ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in the Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Koichiro Maki is first author on ‘Hydrostatic pressure prevents chondrocyte differentiation through heterochromatin remodeling’, published in JCS. Koichiro conducted the research described in this article while a Post-doctoral fellow in Prof Sara A. Wickström's lab at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is now an Assistant Professor in the lab of Prof Taiji Adachi at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan, investigating single-molecular biophysics and cellular biomechanics.

First person – Yukako Nishimura

10.1242/jcs.258593 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 134 (8) ◽

Keyword(s):

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Developmental Physiology ◽

National University ◽

Cytoskeletal Networks ◽

Genetic Medicine ◽

Myosin Superfamily ◽

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yukako Nishimura is co-first author on ‘The formin inhibitor SMIFH2 inhibits members of the myosin superfamily’, published in JCS. Yukako conducted the research described in this article while a research fellow in Virgile Viasnoff and Alexander D. Bershadsky's lab at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore. She is now an assistant professor in the Division of Developmental Physiology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, investigating the functions of cytoskeletal networks in mechanobiology.

First person – Laura Westrate

10.1242/jcs.251090 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (14) ◽

pp. jcs251090

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Protein Transport ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

University Of Colorado ◽

Golgi Transport ◽

Grand Rapids ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Laura Westrate is first author on ‘Vesicular and uncoated Rab1-dependent cargo carriers facilitate ER to Golgi transport’, published in JCS. Laura conducted the research described in this article while a post-doctoral fellow in Dr Gia Voeltz's lab at University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA. She is now an Assistant Professor at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, investigating the mechanisms behind protein transport and sorting in the endoplasmic reticulum.

First person – Kazuko Okamoto

Biology Open ◽

10.1242/bio.058901 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (7) ◽

Keyword(s):

Mammalian Cells ◽

Life Science ◽

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Intracellular Communication ◽

Induced Changes ◽

Expression In Mammalian Cells ◽

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Kazuko Okamoto is first author on ‘ Pressure-induced changes on the morphology and gene expression in mammalian cells’, published in BiO. Kazuko conducted the research described in this article while a research scientist in Tomonobu M. Watanabe's lab at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Kobe, Japan. She is now an assistant professor in the lab of Satoru Okuda at Nano Life Science Institute, Kanazawa University, Japan, investigating intracellular communication and transcription regulation.

First person – Carly York

Biology Open ◽

10.1242/bio.057109 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. bio057109

Keyword(s):

Assistant Professor ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

Animal Physiology ◽

Old Dominion University ◽

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Carly York is first author on ‘Squids use multiple escape jet patterns throughout ontogeny’, published in BiO. Carly conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Ian Bartol's lab at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA. She is now an Assistant Professor of Biology at Lenoir-Rhyne University, investigating areas of animal physiology and biomechanics.