scholarly journals First person – Victor Palacios

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  

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. Victor Palacios is first author on ‘Importin-9 regulates chromosome segregation and packaging in Drosophila germ cells’, published in JCS. Victor conducted his PhD research in the lab of Michael Buszczak at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, where he investigated the essential role of Importin-9 in Drosophila fertility.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. dmm048972

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. Paco López-Cuevas is first author on ‘Transformed notochordal cells trigger chronic wounds in zebrafish, destabilizing the vertebral column and bone homeostasis’, published in DMM. Paco is a PhD student in the lab of Paul Martin at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, investigating the role of inflammation in cancer progression.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  

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. Bernhard N. Bohnert is first author on ‘ Essential role of DNA-PKcs and plasminogen for the development of doxorubicin-induced glomerular injury in mice’, published in DMM. Bernhard is a physician/postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dr. med. Ferruh Artunc at the University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, investigating oedema formation in nephrotic syndrome.


Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. bio057497

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. Tobias Beigl, Ine Kjosås and Emilie Seljeseth are co-first authors on ‘Efficient and crucial quality control of HAP1 cell ploidy status’, published in BiO. Tobias is a PhD student in the laboratory of Professor Walter E. Aulitzky at the Dr Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Stuttgart, investigating protein biology from the N- to the C-terminus and back again. Ine is a Master's student in the laboratory of Professor Thomas Arnesen at the University of Bergen, Institute of Biological Science. Emilie is a Master's student in the laboratory of Nadra J. Nilsen at NTNU Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine in Trondheim, investigating the dual role of immune cells in cancer.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  

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.


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.


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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  

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.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046292

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. Jenny Vermeer and Jonathan lent are co-first authors on ‘A lineage-tracing tool to map the fate of hypoxic tumour cells’, published in DMM. Jenny conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Ruth Muschel at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. She is now a project leader in the lab of Miranda van der Lee at Byondis, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, investigating new targets, particularly in cancer, that will lead to novel treatments. Jonathan is a PhD student in the lab of Marc Vooijs at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, investigating new cancer targets and testing possible new interventions with a focus on tumour hypoxia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. dmm047415

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. Gideon Hughes is first author on ‘Machine learning discriminates a movement disorder in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's disease’, published in DMM. Gideon conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Betsy Pownall's lab at the University of York, York, UK. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Henry Roehl at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, using the zebrafish as a model organism to study human disease and tissue regeneration, combining his research with his interest in computer science.


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. 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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