scholarly journals First person – Sarah O'Keefe

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. jcs258479
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Spike Protein ◽  
First Person ◽  
Host Cell Membrane ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
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. Sarah O'Keefe is first author on ‘Ipomoeassin-F inhibits the in vitro biogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and its host cell membrane receptor’, published in JCS. Sarah is a postdoc in the lab of Stephen High at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, where she is developing small molecule inhibitors for the benefit of human health.

scholarly journals First person – Wei Sheng Yap

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (21) ◽  
pp. jcs256016
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Membrane Lipid ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Lipid Homeostasis ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Technological University ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Wei Sheng Yap is first author on ‘The yeast FIT2 homologs are necessary to maintain cellular proteostasis and membrane lipid homeostasis’, published in JCS. Wei Sheng works in the lab of Guillaume Thibault in the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, studying the interplay between the proteostasis network and lipid homeostasis.

scholarly journals First person – Matthew Zdradzinski

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
Axon Growth ◽  
Mrna Localization ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Mrna Isoform ◽  
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. Matthew Zdradzinski is co-first author on ‘Selective axonal translation of the mRNA isoform encoding prenylated Cdc42 supports axon growth’, published in JCS. Matthew is a PhD Student in the lab of Jeffery Twiss at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, where he is interested in neurobiology, focused around mRNA localization and its effects on axon growth, development and regeneration.

scholarly journals First person – Zhong-Qiu Yu

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (19) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Visual Detection ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Degradation Pathways ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
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. Zhong-Qiu Yu is first author on ‘ Visual detection of binary, ternary and quaternary protein interactions in fission yeast using a Pil1 co-tethering assay’, published in JCS. Zhong-Qiu conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Li-Lin Du's lab at National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China. He is now a research associate in the lab of David Rubinsztein at Department of Medical Genetics, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK, investigating protein degradation pathways and neurodegeneration diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Huildore Bommanna Ranjitha

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. jcs258536
Keyword(s):  
Foot And Mouth Disease ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Interferon Response ◽  
First Person ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Mouth Disease Virus ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Huildore Bommanna Ranjitha is first author on ‘Foot-and-mouth disease virus induces PERK-mediated autophagy to suppress the antiviral interferon response’, published in JCS, and is a PhD Scholar in the lab of Dr Suresh H. Basagoudanavar at ICAR-Indian Veterinarian Research Institute, Bengalur, Karnataka, India, performing in vitro and in vivo analysis of the pathogenesis of animal diseases and working on the development of preventive/diagnostic medicine.

scholarly journals First person – Shohei Yamamoto

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. bio058621
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Biochemical Properties ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Pharmaceutical Sciences ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Physiological Chemistry ◽  
The University ◽  
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. Shohei Yamamoto is first author on ‘Biophysical and biochemical properties of Deup1 self-assemblies: a potential driver for deuterosome formation during multiciliogenesis’, published in BiO. Shohei conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student and then postdoc in Daiju Kitagawa's lab at Department of Physiological Chemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Manuel Théry and Laurent Blanchoin at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble, CEA, Grenoble, France, investigating in vitro reconstitution of cytoskeleton systems.

scholarly journals First person – Xiuping Sun

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (20) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Golgi Retention ◽  
Disease Related Genes ◽  
Technological 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. Xiuping Sun is first author on ‘A quantitative study of the Golgi retention of glycosyltransferases’, published in JCS. Xiuping conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Lu Lei's lab at School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Wang Jigang, Yang Qinhe at Shenzhen People's Hospital, Shenzhen, China investigating the roles of disease-related genes in neurodegenerative diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Aini Gusmira

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (19) ◽  
pp. jcs254656
Keyword(s):  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Staff Member ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cholesterol Depletion ◽  
First Person ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Helena Rannikmae

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (2) ◽  
pp. jcs258385
Keyword(s):  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Senior Scientist ◽  
Intestinal Epithelia ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
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. Helena Rannikmae is first author on ‘Mutational inactivation of Apc in the intestinal epithelia compromises cellular organisation’, published in JCS. Helena conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Marc de la Roche's lab at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. She is now a Senior Scientist in the Complex In Vitro Models group at GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, UK, using complex in vitro models to study health and disease.

scholarly journals First person – Judith Barbara Fülle

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research University ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cell Junctions ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Cell Matrix ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
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. Judith Barbara Fülle is first author on ‘ Desmosome dualism – most of the junction is stable, but a plakophilin moiety is persistently dynamic’, published in JCS. Judith is a PhD student in the labs of Christoph Ballestrem, David R. Garrod and E. Birgitte Lane at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester, UK and the Skin Research Institute of Singapore, Agency of Science Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, investigating the nature of cell–cell junctions, in particular the composition and regulation of desmosomes in health and 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.

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