scholarly journals First person – Wenqing Zhou, Alan Hsu and Yueyang Wang

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (17) ◽  
pp. jcs253070
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Tissue Injury ◽  
Neutrophil Migration ◽  
Neutrophil Function ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Mitofusin 2 ◽  
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. Wenqing Zhou, Alan Hsu and Yueyang Wang are first authors on ‘Mitofusin 2 regulates neutrophil adhesive migration and the actin cytoskeleton’, published in JCS. Wenqing, Alan and Yueyang conducted the research described in this article while PhD students in Qing Deng's laboratory at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, where Yueyang is currently studying mechanisms of neutrophil migration and activation, including the response of neutrophils to tissue injury and infection. Wenqing is now a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Gregory Sonnenberg at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, investigating the mechanisms regulating immune homeostasis and response in the gastrointestinal tract. Alan is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Hongbo Luo at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, where he is investigating the factors that govern neutrophil function and how they impact immune responses to pathogen challenges.

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 – Jessica Sam

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. bio054247
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Congenital Heart Disease ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Cardiac Development ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Genetic Mechanisms ◽  
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. Jessica Sam is first author on ‘Specificity, redundancy and dosage thresholds among gata4/5/6 genes during zebrafish cardiogenesis’, published in BiO. Jessica is a PhD student in the lab of Todd Evans at the Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA, investigating the genetic mechanisms underlying cardiac development and congenital heart disease.

scholarly journals First person – Daniel Bronder

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Chromosomal Instability ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
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. Daniel Bronder is first author on ‘ TP53 loss initiates chromosomal instability in fallopian tube epithelial cells’, published in DMM. Daniel conducted the research described in this article while a doctoral student in Thomas Ried and Stephen Taylor's labs at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA and the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Samuel Bakhoum at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA, investigating the causes and consequences of chromosomal instability in cancer.

scholarly journals First person – Ziyan Fang

2022 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Immune Responses ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Of California ◽  
First Person ◽  
Recruitment Process ◽  
Host Immune Responses ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Molecular Aspects ◽  
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. Ziyan Fang is first author on ‘ The Salmonella effector SifA initiates a kinesin-1 and kinesin-3 recruitment process mirroring that mediated by Arl8a and Arl8b’, published in JCS. Ziyan conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Stéphane Méresse's lab at Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Marseille, France. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Elina Zúñiga at Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, USA, where her research interests lie in studying the cellular and molecular aspects of the host immune responses during viral or bacterial infection.

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.

scholarly journals First person – Magdalena Cardenas-Rodriguez

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Genetics ◽  
Small Gtpases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Genetic Compensation ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Method ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

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. Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora are co-first authors on ‘ A new method to localise and quantify oxidative stress in live juvenile mussels’, published in BiO. They are both researchers in the laboratory of Serean Adams at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand. Natalí's research interests centre around ecophysiology of marine invertebrates, particularly on the organisms' stress response. Leonardo is investigating the biology of commercially, ecologically and culturally relevant marine invertebrates throughout their life cycle.

scholarly journals First person – Jia Yu and Pei-Ju Liao

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Drug Binding ◽  
First Person ◽  
Protein Protein Interactions ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Complex Simulation ◽  
Drug Binding Sites ◽  
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. Jia Yu and Pei-Ju Liao are co-first authors on ‘ Structural model of human PORCN illuminates disease-associated variants and drug-binding sites’, published in JCS. Jia is a senior postdoc in the lab of David Virshup at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, investigating Wnt secretion and signalling; in particular, how Wnt trafficking and secretion is regulated by two integral membrane proteins, porcupine and WLS. Pei-Ju is a research assistant in the same lab, investigating protein–protein interactions in the systems biology of signalling pathways using protein structure modelling and protein complex simulation.

scholarly journals First person – Alessandra da Silva Dantas

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Medical Mycology ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Alessandra da Silva Dantas is first author on ‘ Crosstalk between the calcineurin and cell wall integrity pathways prevents chitin overexpression in Candida albicans’, published in JCS. Alessandra is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Neil Gow at the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, UK, and is interested in the mechanisms controlling cell division and death in human fungal pathogens.

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