scholarly journals First person – Nagisa Yoshida

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm045922

ABSTRACTFirst 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. Nagisa Yoshida is first author on ‘The zebrafish as a novel model for the in vivo study of Toxoplasma gondii replication and interaction with macrophages’, published in DMM. Nagisa conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Prof. Serge Mostowy and Dr Eva Frickel's labs at Imperial College London/The Francis Crick Institute/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr Robindra Basu-Roy and Prof. Serge Mostowy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and her research interests include infection biology and immunology.

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. bio057851

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. Stephan Daetwyler is first author on ‘Fiji plugin for annotating movies with custom arrows’, published in BiO. Stephan is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Reto Fiolka at UT Southwestern, Dallas, USA, investigating using light sheet and multiphoton microscopy with customized data processing and analysis to understand dynamic processes in vivo.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. jcs258536

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Huildore Bommanna Ranjitha is first author on ‘Foot-and-mouth disease virus induces PERK-mediated autophagy to suppress the antiviral interferon response’, published in JCS, and is a PhD Scholar in the lab of Dr Suresh H. Basagoudanavar at ICAR-Indian Veterinarian Research Institute, Bengalur, Karnataka, India, performing in vitro and in vivo analysis of the pathogenesis of animal diseases and working on the development of preventive/diagnostic medicine.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. jcs258535

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. Elliott Bernard is first author on ‘M. tuberculosis infection of human iPSC-derived macrophages reveals complex membrane dynamics during xenophagy evasion’, published in JCS. Elliott is a PhD student in the lab of Maximiliano (Max) Gutierrez at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, investigating the cell biology of the endolysosomal and autophagy systems and their dysfunction in disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (13) ◽  

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. Anna Dowbaj is co-first author on ‘ An optogenetic method for interrogating YAP1 and TAZ nuclear–cytoplasmic shuttling’, published in JCS. Anna conducted the work described in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Erik Sahai at the Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Meritxell Huch at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany, investigating the role of the stem cell niche in liver regeneration.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  

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. Ines Alvarez Rodrigo is first author on ‘ Ana1 helps recruit Polo to centrioles to promote mitotic PCM assembly and centriole elongation’, published in JCS. Ines conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Jordan Raff's lab at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK. She is now a postdoc in the lab of J. P. Vincent at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, investigating applying advanced microscopy techniques to study Wnt signalling during development.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. dmm047282

ABSTRACTFirst 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. Jelmer Hoeksma is first author on ‘Cercosporamide inhibits bone morphogenetic protein receptor type I kinase activity in zebrafish’, published in DMM. Jelmer is a PhD student/technician in the lab of Jeroen den Hertog at Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands, identifying biologically active fungal compounds and uncovering their mode of action in vivo.


Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  

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. Paola Lepanto and Florencia Levin-Ferreyra are co-first authors on ‘ Insights into in vivo adipocyte differentiation through cell-specific labeling in zebrafish’, published in BiO. Paola is a research assistant in the lab of José Badano at Institut Pasteur Montevideo, investigating cellular and developmental biology. Florencia conducted the research described in this article while a final dissertation student in José Badano's lab at Institut Pasteur Montevideo. She is now a research associate in the lab of Bruno di Stefano at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, investigating stem cell potency and cell fate decisions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  

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. Fanny Jaudon and Martina Albini are co-first authors on ‘ A developmental stage- and Kidins220-dependent switch in astrocyte responsiveness to brain-derived neurotrophic factor’, published in JCS. Fanny is a postdoc at the University of Trieste in the lab of Lorenzo A. Cingolani at Center for Synaptic Neuroscience and Technology, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy, investigating the molecular mechanisms controlling development and function of neuronal circuits and implementing genome-editing approaches for the treatment of neurological disorders. Martina is a PhD student at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in the lab of Fabio Benfenati and Fabrizia Cesca investigating neurotrophin biology and its involvement in neurological diseases.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255166

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. Federico Pecori is first author on ‘Mucin-type O-glycosylation controls pluripotency in mouse embryonic stem cells via Wnt receptor endocytosis’, published in JCS. Federico is a PhD student in the lab of Shoko Nishihara at the Laboratory of Cell Biology, Department of Bioinformatics, Soka University, Tokyo, Japan, where he is interested in the mechanisms regulating stem cell identity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  

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. Magdalena Cardenas-Rodriguez is first author on ‘ Genetic compensation for cilia defects in cep290 mutants by upregulation of cilia-associated small GTPases’, published in JCS. Magdalena is a research assistant in the lab of Jose Luis Badano at Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Montevideo, Uruguay, investigating the cellular processes that are altered in cilia-related human diseases.


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