scholarly journals First person – Xiangchuan Wang

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. jcs258445

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. Xiangchuan Wang is first author on ‘Cortical recruitment of centralspindlin and RhoA effectors during meiosis I of Caenorhabditis elegans primary spermatocytes’, published in JCS. Xiangchuan is a Senior Research Scholar in the lab of Yu Chung Tse at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R. China, investigating the generation of diversified gametes.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. dmm047407

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. Éva Saskői is first author on ‘The SDHB Arg230His mutation causing familial paraganglioma alters glycolysis in a new Caenorhabditis elegans model’, published in DMM. Éva is a PhD student in the lab of Krisztina Takács-Vellai at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, investigating the developmental functions of tumor suppressor homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251108

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (19) ◽  
pp. jcs254656

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. Aini Gusmira is first author on ‘Regulation of caveolae through cholesterol-depletion-dependent tubulation mediated by PACSIN2’, published in JCS. Aini conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Shiro Suetsugu's lab at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She is now an academic staff member in the lab of Dr Anton Bahtiar at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Indonesia, investigating the role of the cell membrane in disease processes.


Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. bio058685

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. Kalyanasundaram Parthasarathy is first author on ‘Spatial odor discrimination in the hawkmoth, Manduca sexta (L.)’, published in BiO. He conducted the research described in this article while a Senior Research Associate in Professor Mark A Willis's lab at the Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is now a Postdoc in the lab of Professor Sanjay P Sane at National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India, investigating how animals use sensory cues to navigate, the related behaviours and the underlying brain function.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. dmm048553

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. Karen Lange is first author on ‘Interpreting the pathogenicity of Joubert syndrome missense variants in Caenorhabditis elegans’, published in DMM. Karen is a postdoc in the lab of Oliver Blacque at University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, using genome-editing techniques in worms to investigate ciliopathies, rare genetic disorders caused by defects in cilia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251900

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. Maiko Yamamoto is first author on ‘The PRDM14–CtBP1/2–PRC2 complex regulates transcriptional repression during the transition from primed to naïve pluripotency’, published in JCS. Maiko conducted the research described in this article while a Master course student in Yoshiyuki Seki's lab at Department of Biomedical Chemistry, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, investigating epigenetic regulation of ESC pluripotency.


Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  

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. Karoline Skåra is first author on ‘ Energetics of whiskered bats in comparison to other bats of the family Vespertilionidae’, published in BiO. Karoline is a PhD student in the lab of Maria Christine Magnus at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, investigating the thermoregulation of whiskered bats in Norway, having recently completed her master's at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (10) ◽  

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. Bharath Srinivasan is co-first author on ‘ Enrichment of Zα domains at cytoplasmic stress granules is due to their innate ability to bind to nucleic acids’, published in JCS. Bharath conducted the research described in this article while a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow in Alekos Athanasiadis's lab at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal. He is now a senior research scientist at AstraZeneca in Cambridge, UK, investigating mechanistic biology and enzymology.


2022 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  

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. Masashi Nambu is first author on ‘ Direct evaluation of cohesin-mediated sister kinetochore associations at meiosis I in fission yeast’, published in JCS. Masashi works in the lab of Ayumu Yamamoto at Faculty of Science, and Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan, investigating the development of ‘direct’ evaluation of kinetochore association and the contribution of cohesion and its regulators.


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.


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