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.

scholarly journals First person – Amlan Barai

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (23) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Tumor Heterogeneity ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cancer Development ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Cell Behavior ◽  
First Person ◽  
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. Amlan Barai is first author on ‘ α-Actinin-4 drives invasiveness by regulating myosin IIB expression and myosin IIA localization’, published in JCS. Amlan is an Institute Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Prof. Shamik Sen at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, where he uses multidisciplinary approaches to understand cell behavior and cellular dynamic processes including cancer development, metastasis and tumor heterogeneity.

scholarly journals First person – Anjali Bajpai

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046136
Keyword(s):  
Model System ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Intestinal Stem Cell ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Developmental Principles ◽  
Selection Of

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. Anjali Bajpai is first author on ‘A Drosophila model of oral peptide therapeutics for adult intestinal stem cell tumors’, published in DMM. Anjali is a Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance early-career fellow in the lab of Prof. Pradip Sinha at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, investigating the developmental principles that govern carcinogenesis using Drosophila as a model system.

scholarly journals First person – Alessandra da Silva Dantas

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Medical Mycology ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Sachiko Fujiwara

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (14) ◽  
pp. jcs251082
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Collective Migration ◽  
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. Sachiko Fujiwara is first author on ‘Disease-associated keratin mutations reduce traction forces and compromise adhesion and collective migration’, published in JCS. Sachiko conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral fellow in Thomas M. Magin's lab at Institute of Biology, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, Leipzig University, Germany. She is now an assistant professor in the lab of Kazunori Imaizumi at the Graduate School of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan, investigating the physiological roles of cytoskeletons.

scholarly journals First person – Dipayan De

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (11) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Cells ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Amyloid Β ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Lysosomal Targeting ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Cellular Organelles

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. Dipayan De is first author on ‘ Amyloid-β oligomers block lysosomal targeting of miRNPs to prevent miRNP recycling and target repression in glial cells’, published in JCS. Dipayan is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Suvendra N. Bhattacharyya at the CSIR Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India, investigating how cellular organelles regulate microRNA activity in mammalian cells.

scholarly journals First person – Zofia Ostrowska-Podhorodecka

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (6) ◽  
pp. jcs258525
Keyword(s):  
Cell Migration ◽  
Cell Adhesion ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Β1 Integrin ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Cell Extension ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
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. Zofia Ostrowska-Podhorodecka is first author on ‘Vimentin tunes cell migration on collagen by controlling β1 integrin activation and clustering’, published in JCS. Zofia is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Christopher A. McCulloch, University of Toronto, Canada, where her research focuses on the mechanisms of vimentin-dependent regulation of cell adhesion and cell extension formation.

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 – Bharti Nawalpuri

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Synaptic Plasticity ◽  
Brain Research ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Translation Regulation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Temporal Expression ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Indian Institute Of Science ◽  
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. Bharti Nawalpuri is first author on ‘ Distinct temporal expression of the GW182 paralog TNRC6A in neurons regulates dendritic arborization’, published in JCS. Bharti is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Ravi S. Muddashetty at the Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, investigating mechanisms of translation regulation in neurodevelopment and synaptic plasticity.

scholarly journals First person – Raja Gopal Reddy Mooli

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (18) ◽  
pp. jcs253963
Keyword(s):  
Liver Cancer ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Related Protein ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Brown Adipogenesis

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. Raja Gopal Reddy Mooli is first author on ‘An indispensable role for dynamin-related protein 1 in beige and brown adipogenesis’, published in JCS. Raja Gopal Reddy is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Sadeesh Ramakrishnan at the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, investigating the role of hypoxic signaling in liver cancer and the crosstalk between liver and beige adipogenesis mechanisms.

scholarly journals First person – Bartika Ghoshal

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Biology ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Extracellular Vesicle ◽  
Indian Institute ◽  
Early Career ◽  
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 Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Bartika Ghoshal is first author on ‘ Non-canonical argonaute loading of extracellular vesicle-derived exogenous single-stranded miRNA in recipient cells’, published in JCS. Bartika is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Suvendra Nath Bhattacharyya at CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata, India, investigating extracellular vesicle or exosome biology and cell biology.

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