scholarly journals First person – Patricia Shaw

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. dmm047076
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ts65dn Mouse ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Boston University ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Phenotypic Drift ◽  
Selection Of

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. Patricia Shaw is first author on ‘Longitudinal neuroanatomical and behavioral analyses show phenotypic drift and variability in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome’, published in DMM. Patricia is a PhD student in the lab of Tarik Haydar at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, researching the underlying genetic and cellular mechanisms that contribute to brain development, and investigating how these processes are altered in diseases and disorders, such as Down syndrome, in order to identify novel targetable approaches for therapeutics.

scholarly journals First person – Andreia Nunes

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Disease Mechanisms ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

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. Andreia Nunes is first author on ‘ Identification of candidate miRNA biomarkers for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy using DUX4-based mouse models’, published in DMM. Andreia is a postdoc in the lab of Peter L. Jones at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA, investigating therapeutics for and disease mechanisms of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

scholarly journals First person – Fumiya Okawa, Yutaro Hama and Sidi Zhang

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

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. Fumiya Okawa, Yutaro Hama and Sidi Zhang are co-first authors on ‘Evolution and insights into the structure and function of the DedA superfamily containing TMEM41B and VMP1’, published in JCS. Fumiya and Yutaro are PhD students and Sidi is a postdoc in the lab of Noboru Mizushima at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan, where they are investigating the molecular mechanisms and origin of autophagy.

scholarly journals First person – Takeshi Harada

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (21) ◽  
pp. jcs256024
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Contact Sites ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Mitochondrial Functions ◽  
Selection Of

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.

scholarly journals First person – Samanta Sarti

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. bio057182
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Oncology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Clinical Physiology ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Melanoma Model ◽  
Selection Of

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. Samanta Sarti is first author on ‘Inducible modulation of miR-204 levels in a zebrafish melanoma model’, published in BiO. Samanta conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Laura Poliseno's lab at the Oncogenomics Unit Core Research Laboratory (CRL), ISPRO/Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC), CNR, in Pisa, Italy. She is now a Postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Samuel Sidi in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, at the Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, investigating the role of miR-204 in melanoma development by its inducible modulation in a zebrafish melanoma model.

scholarly journals First person – Yuka Kobayashi

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Photoreceptor Degeneration ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Differential Gene ◽  
Selection Of

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.

scholarly journals First person – Aarren Mannion

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (15) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Endothelial Cell ◽  
Research University ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Graham Cook ◽  
Actin Remodelling ◽  
Selection Of

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. Aarren Mannion is first author on ‘ Tumour cell CD99 regulates transendothelial migration via CDC42 and actin remodelling’, published in JCS. Aarren conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the labs of Professor Pam Jones and Professor Graham Cook at the Leeds Institute for Medical Research, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, UK. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Professor Lars Holmgren at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, investigating the role of a signalling axis between the scaffold protein AmotL2 and YAP in endothelial cell mechanotransduction.

scholarly journals First person – Pearl Ryder

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. bio057026
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Biological Images ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Emory University ◽  
Bioimage Analysis ◽  
Selection Of

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. Pearl Ryder is first author on ‘Quantitative analysis of subcellular distributions with an open-source, object-based tool’, published in BiO. Pearl conducted the research described in this article while a NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Dorothy Lerit's lab at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Bioimage Analysis in the lab of Anne Carpenter at The Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA, investigating Extracting data and insights from biological images.

scholarly journals First person – Bin Yu

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (13) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Cycle ◽  
Kinase Activity ◽  
Cell Cycle Control ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Post Translational Modifications ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Sumo Proteases ◽  
Selection Of

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. Bin Yu is first author on ‘ SUMO proteases SENP3 and SENP5 spatiotemporally regulate the kinase activity of Aurora A’, published in JCS. Bin is a PhD graduate in the lab of Jing Yi at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, investigating protein post-translational modifications in cell cycle control.

scholarly journals First person – Brittany Seman

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Extracellular Dna ◽  
First Person ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Virginia School ◽  
Selection Of

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. Brittany Seman is first author on ‘Neonatal low-density granulocytes internalize and kill bacteria but suppress monocyte function using extracellular DNA’, published in JCS. Brittany is a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology in the lab of Dr Cory M. Robinson at West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, investigating host–pathogen interactions in the context of infectious diseases.

First person – Fanny Jaudon and Martina Albini

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neurotrophic Factor ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
And Function ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

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.

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