scholarly journals First person – Matías Capella

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (24) ◽  
pp. jcs258020
Author(s):  
Matías Capella

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. Matías Capella is first author on ‘ ESCRT recruitment by the S. cerevisiae inner nuclear membrane protein Heh1 is regulated by Hub1-mediated alternative splicing’, published in JCS. Matías conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Prof. Dr Stefan Jentsch's lab at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich, Germany. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr Sigurd Braun at the Biomedical Center Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, investigating the regulation of repetitive DNA stability.

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  

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. Kira Allmeroth is first author on ‘ N1-acetylspermidine is a determinant of hair follicle stem cell fate’, published in JCS. Kira conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Martin Denzel's lab at the Max Planck Insitute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany. She is now a postdoc in the Denzel lab, investigating stem cells and metabolism.


Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. bio058519

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. jcs258327

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. Srija Bhagavatula is first author on ‘A putative stem-loop structure in Drosophila crumbs is required for mRNA localisation in epithelia and germline cells’, published in JCS. Srija is a post-doc in the lab of Dr Elisabeth Knust at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, investigating the significance of mRNA localization in epithelia.


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 (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.


Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  

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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