scholarly journals First person – Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Tumor Development ◽  
Neck Region ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Field Cancerization ◽  
First Person ◽  
Head And Neck Region ◽  
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. Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson are co-first authors on ‘ Tissue architecture delineates field cancerization in BrafV600E-induced tumor development’, published in DMM. Elin is an MD, PhD student in the lab of Mikael Nilsson at Sahlgrenska Centre for Cancer Research, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg. She has a great interest in the thyroid gland in particular, and the mechanisms of tumor development, progression and treatment associated with epithelial carcinomas in general. Ellen is an MD, resident physician in oto-rhino-laryngology and postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Karin Roberg at Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, with broad interest the thyroid gland, tumors of the head and neck region, and the molecular mechanisms that are important for tumor initiation, development, and treatment.

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.

scholarly journals First person – Federico Pecori

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255166
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Embryonic Stem Cells ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Receptor Endocytosis ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. 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.

First person – Anne Janssen

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Nuclear Envelope ◽  
Human Disease ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Selective Autophagy ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Anne Janssen is first author on ‘ Direct observation of aggregate-triggered selective autophagy in human cells’, published in JCS. Anne conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Lukas Kapitein's lab at Division of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Biophysics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH, Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is now a FEBS long-term fellow in the lab of Delphine Larrieu at Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK, where she is currently interested in the nuclear envelope and how problems in maintaining nuclear integrity can cause human disease.

scholarly journals First person – Maayan Barnea-Zohar and Sabina E. Winograd-Katz

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Size ◽  
Cell Fusion ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Weizmann Institute ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Dependent Mechanism

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. Maayan Barnea-Zohar and Sabina E. Winograd-Katz are co-first authors on ‘ An SNX10-dependent mechanism downregulates fusion between mature osteoclasts’, published in JCS. Maayan is a research assistant in the lab of Ari Elson at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, investigating cell–cell fusion in osteoclasts and how cell size is determined. Sabina is a research assistant and lab manager in the lab of Benjamin Geiger at the Weizmann Institute of Science, investigating cell biology and signaling.

scholarly journals First person – Nuno Martins, Fernanda Cisneros-Soberanis and Elisa Pesenti

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (14) ◽  
pp. jcs251124
Keyword(s):  
Chromosome Segregation ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Artificial Chromosome ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Human Artificial Chromosome ◽  
First Person ◽  
Artificial Chromosomes ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
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. Nuno Martins, Fernanda Cisneros-Soberani and Elisa Pesenti are co-first authors on ‘H3K9me3 maintenance on a human artificial chromosome is required for segregation but not centromere epigenetic memory’, published in JCS. Nuno conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in William C. Earnshaw's lab at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Ting Wu at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, where his research interests lie in the structural and dynamic chromatin regulation of the more mysterious regions of the cell nucleus, such as centromeres, repetitive elements and nucleoli. Fernanda conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in William C. Earnshaw's lab. She is now an Investigadora en Ciencias Médicas in the lab of Luis Alonso Herrera at Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, México City, México, investigating the transcriptional regulation of microRNAs in breast cancer. Elisa is a postdoc/lab manager in the lab of William C. Earnshaw and is interested in developing human artificial chromosomes (HACs) by applying molecular and synthetic biology techniques to study chromosome segregation and epigenetics in human cells.

scholarly journals First person – Laura Tamberg

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046532
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Model System ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
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. Laura Tamberg is first author on ‘Daughterless, the Drosophila orthologue of TCF4, is required for associative learning and maintenance of the synaptic proteome’, published in DMM. Laura is a PhD student in the lab of Tõnis Timmusk at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Her research involves investigating the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription factor TCF4-related neuronal diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Sarita Hebbar and Malte Lehmann

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. bio058519
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Pathways ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Splicing Regulator ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Molecular Cell Biology ◽  
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. Sarita Hebbar and Malte Lehmann are co-first authors on ‘Mutations in the splicing regulator Prp31 lead to retinal degeneration in Drosophila’, published in BiO. Sarita is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Elisabeth Knust at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics, investigating how the same metabolic pathways regulate temporally distinct processes (in morphogenesis and later in tissue homoestasis). Malte is a post-doctoral researcher and physician in the lab of R. G. Kühl and A. G. Siegmund at Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, investigating the mechanisms behind inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients.

scholarly journals First person – Marion Lechable and Alexandre Jan

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. bio057034
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Genetic Model ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Stem Cell Biology ◽  
First Person ◽  
Marie Curie ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Whole Life Cycle ◽  
Culture Protocol ◽  
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. Marion Lechable and Alexandre Jan are co-first authors on ‘An improved whole life cycle culture protocol for the hydrozoan genetic model Clytia hemisphaerica’, published in BiO. Marion is a Marie-Curie Sklodowska PhD student (ARDRE doctoral programme) in the lab of Professor Bert Hobmayer at University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology, Austria, investigating stem cell biology, regeneration, aging and cnidarians models. Alexandre was an engineer assistant in the lab of Dr Tsuyoshi Momose at Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, at the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, France, investigating capture breeding, cnidarians models, gelatinous plankton, improving culturing protocols and regeneration.

First person – Alexander Johnson

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251108
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Quantitative Imaging ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Plant Model ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Alexander Johnson is first author on ‘Experimental toolbox for quantitative evaluation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in the plant model Arabidopsis’, published in JCS. Alexander is a postdoc in the lab of Jiri Friml at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, investigating the characterization of the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis in plants using a range of quantitative imaging and biochemical approaches.

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.

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