scholarly journals First person – Pragya Chandrakar

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (5) ◽  
pp. jcs258532
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Immune Cell ◽  
Albert Einstein College ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research Fellow ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
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. Pragya Chandrakar is first author on ‘Jagged–Notch-mediated divergence of immune cell crosstalk maintains the anti-inflammatory response in visceral leishmaniasis’, published in JCS. Pragya conducted the research described in this article while a Senior Research Fellow in Dr Susanta Kar's lab at the CSIR Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr John Chan at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA, investigating the different possible mechanisms by which foreign pathogens breach the immune system.

scholarly journals First person – Xiangchuan Wang

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. jcs258445
Keyword(s):  
Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Scholar ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Southern University ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Meiosis I

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.

scholarly journals First person – Yixing Wu and Ying Bai

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Fat ◽  
Fat Distribution ◽  
Small Gtpase ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Fat Cells ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Golgi Network ◽  
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. Yixing Wu and Ying Bai are co-first authors on ‘ Palmitoylated small GTPase ARL15 is translocated within Golgi network during adipogenesis’, published in BiO. Yixing is a research fellow in the lab of Frances Wiseman at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK, investigating Down's syndrome and Alzheimer's disease-related endo-lysosomal pathways and cathepsin deficits. Ying is a postdoc in the lab of Roger D. Cox at MRC Harwell Institute, Didcot, UK, investigating how fat cells are formed, and genes that are involved in regulating body fat distribution.

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 – Keith Eidell

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Activation ◽  
Immune Cell ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Immune Cell Activation ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Keith Eidell is first author on ‘ LFA-1 and kindlin-3 enable the collaborative transport of SLP-76 microclusters by myosin and dynein motors’, published in JCS. Keith is currently a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Michael Hemann at MIT at the Koch Institute investigating cytoskeletal control of immune cell activation.

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 – 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 – Kalyanasundaram Parthasarathy

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. bio058685
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Tata Institute ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Senior Research ◽  
Fundamental Research ◽  
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. 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.

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