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 – 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 – Sachiko Fujiwara

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (14) ◽  
pp. jcs251082
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Collective Migration ◽  
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. 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.

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 – 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 – 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 – Naoto Tanaka

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Unicellular Alga ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Photosynthetic Eukaryotes ◽  
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. Naoto Tanaka is first author on ‘ CZON-cutter – a CRISPR-Cas9 system for multiplexed organelle imaging in a simple unicellular alga’, published in JCS. Naoto conducted the research described in this article while at Yamato Yoshida's lab at Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is now a Master's student in the lab of Kakutani Tetsuji at the same institution investigating the evolution and role of epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone modifications, in photosynthetic eukaryotes.

scholarly journals Future leader to watch – Eunice Tan

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
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. 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.

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 – Mohammad Yunus Ansari

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (22) ◽  
pp. jcs256644
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Cartilage Homeostasis ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Catabolic Response ◽  
Medical University ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Luv Kishore Srivastava

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (10) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Lamin A ◽  
First Person ◽  
Nuclear Deformation ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
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. Luv Kishore Srivastava is first author on ‘Spatial distribution of lamin A/C determines nuclear stiffness and stress-mediated deformation’, published in JCS. Luv Kishore is a PhD student in the lab of Allen Ehrlicher at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, investigating the role of lamin A/C in global and local nuclear deformation.

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