scholarly journals First person – Shannon McMahon

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Protein Aggregation ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Medical Research Institute ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Research Institute

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. Shannon McMahon is first author on ‘DNAJB chaperones suppress destabilised protein aggregation via a region distinct from that used to inhibit amyloidogenesis’, published in JCS. Shannon is a PhD student in the lab of Heath Ecroyd at Molecular Horizons and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, investigating whether the intrinsic proteostasis machinery can be manipulated to combat neurodegenerative diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Matthew Wood

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255182
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Dna Replication ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Washington University ◽  
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. Matthew Wood is first author on ‘TDP-43 dysfunction results in R-loop accumulation and DNA replication defects’, published in JCS. Matthew is a PhD student in the lab of Alessandro Vindigni at Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, investigating DNA damage in neurodegenerative diseases caused by R-loops.

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 – Ambuja Navalkar

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Aggregation ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Cellular Transformation ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
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. Ambuja Navalkar is first author on ‘Direct evidence of cellular transformation by prion-like p53 amyloid infection’, published in JCS. Ambuja conducted the research described in this article while a research fellow in Professor Samir K. Maji's lab at the Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. She is now an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the Maji lab, investigating protein aggregation linked with cancer and neurodegeneration.

First person – Helena Sofia Domingues

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251934
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Regulation ◽  
Morphological Differentiation ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Junior Researcher ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Research Institute

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 Sofia Domingues is first author on ‘Pushing myelination – developmental regulation of myosin expression drives oligodendrocyte morphological differentiation’, published in JCS. Helena Sofia conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral fellow in Inês Mendes Pinto's lab at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal. She is now a Junior Researcher in the lab of Fábio G. Teixeira at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, investigating mammalian myelination in development and age-associated neurodegeneration.

scholarly journals First person – Stefanie Andersson and Antonia Maria Romero

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Aggregation ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Cellular Level ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Molecular Determinants ◽  
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. Stefanie Andersson and Antonia Maria Romero are co-first authors on ‘ Genome-wide imaging screen uncovers molecular determinants of arsenite-induced protein aggregation and toxicity’, published in JCS. Stefanie is a PhD student in the lab of Markus Tamás at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, where her research interests lie in uncovering arsenic and toxicity on a cellular level. Antonia Maria is a postdoc in the lab of Markus Tamás, who investigates the molecular mechanisms involved in the response to availability of different metals.

First person – Fanny Jaudon and Martina Albini

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neurotrophic Factor ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
And Function ◽  
The 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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Federico Pecori

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255166
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Embryonic Stem Cells ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Embryonic Stem ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Receptor Endocytosis ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Magdalena Cardenas-Rodriguez

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Genetics ◽  
Small Gtpases ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Human Diseases ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Cellular Processes ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Genetic Compensation ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Method ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Jia Yu and Pei-Ju Liao

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Protein Interactions ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Drug Binding ◽  
First Person ◽  
Protein Protein Interactions ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Complex Simulation ◽  
Drug Binding Sites ◽  
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. 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.

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