scholarly journals First person – Bin Yu

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (13) ◽  

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. Bin Yu is first author on ‘ SUMO proteases SENP3 and SENP5 spatiotemporally regulate the kinase activity of Aurora A’, published in JCS. Bin is a PhD graduate in the lab of Jing Yi at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, investigating protein post-translational modifications in cell cycle control.

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (8) ◽  

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. Fumiya Okawa, Yutaro Hama and Sidi Zhang are co-first authors on ‘Evolution and insights into the structure and function of the DedA superfamily containing TMEM41B and VMP1’, published in JCS. Fumiya and Yutaro are PhD students and Sidi is a postdoc in the lab of Noboru Mizushima at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Japan, where they are investigating the molecular mechanisms and origin of autophagy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (21) ◽  
pp. jcs256024

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. Takeshi Harada is first author on ‘Palmitoylated CKAP4 regulates mitochondrial functions through an interaction with VDAC2 at ER–mitochondria contact sites’, published in JCS. Takeshi is an assistant professor in the lab of Akira Kikuchi at the Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan, investigating the role of CKAP4 at ER–mitochondria contact sites.


Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. bio057182

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  

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. Yuka Kobayashi is first author on ‘ Early manifestations and differential gene expression associated with photoreceptor degeneration in Prom1-deficient retina’, published in DMM. Yuka is assistant professor in the lab of Prof. Kazuhiro Kimura at Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Ube, Japan, investigating ophthalmology.


2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (15) ◽  

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. Aarren Mannion is first author on ‘ Tumour cell CD99 regulates transendothelial migration via CDC42 and actin remodelling’, published in JCS. Aarren conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the labs of Professor Pam Jones and Professor Graham Cook at the Leeds Institute for Medical Research, University of Leeds School of Medicine, Leeds, UK. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Professor Lars Holmgren at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, investigating the role of a signalling axis between the scaffold protein AmotL2 and YAP in endothelial cell mechanotransduction.


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. Akruti Shah is first author on ‘ IP6K1 upregulates the formation of processing bodies by influencing protein-protein interactions on the mRNA cap’, published in JCS. Akruti is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Rashna Bhandari at the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, investigating the effect of post-translational modifications and protein–protein interactions on mRNA metabolism in health and disease.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. dmm047076

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. Patricia Shaw is first author on ‘Longitudinal neuroanatomical and behavioral analyses show phenotypic drift and variability in the Ts65Dn mouse model of Down syndrome’, published in DMM. Patricia is a PhD student in the lab of Tarik Haydar at Boston University School of Medicine, USA, researching the underlying genetic and cellular mechanisms that contribute to brain development, and investigating how these processes are altered in diseases and disorders, such as Down syndrome, in order to identify novel targetable approaches for therapeutics.


Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. bio057026

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. Pearl Ryder is first author on ‘Quantitative analysis of subcellular distributions with an open-source, object-based tool’, published in BiO. Pearl conducted the research described in this article while a NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Dorothy Lerit's lab at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Bioimage Analysis in the lab of Anne Carpenter at The Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA, investigating Extracting data and insights from biological images.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. dmm047282

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. Jelmer Hoeksma is first author on ‘Cercosporamide inhibits bone morphogenetic protein receptor type I kinase activity in zebrafish’, published in DMM. Jelmer is a PhD student/technician in the lab of Jeroen den Hertog at Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands, identifying biologically active fungal compounds and uncovering their mode of action in vivo.


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