scholarly journals First person – Jacqueline Simonet

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Egg Production ◽  
Cell Metabolism ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Ctp Synthase ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
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. Jacqueline Simonet is first author on ‘CTP synthase polymerization in germline cells of the developing Drosophila egg supports egg production’, published in BiO. Jacqueline conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Jeffrey Peterson's lab at Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA and is now a Visiting Assistant Professor at Arcadia University, PA, investigating the regulation of cell metabolism, particularly the regulation of biosynthetic enzymes by filamentation using Drosophila as a model system.

scholarly journals First person – Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. dmm047506
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Transcriptional Responses ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Experimental Approaches ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The Impact

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. Katie Lloyd and Stamatia Papoutsopoulou are co-first authors on ‘Using systems medicine to identify a therapeutic agent with potential for repurposing in inflammatory bowel disease’, published in DMM. Katie conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Prof. Chris Probert's lab at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. She is now a lecturer in pharmacology at the University of Chester, Chester, UK. Her research focuses on personalising medicine by combining innovative experimental approaches to identify biomarkers of inflammatory disease, drug response and mechanisms of drug resistance, which consider complex factors such as inter-patient variability and co-morbidities. Stamatia conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Werner Muller's lab at the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. She is currently a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Mark Pritchard at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, investigating the regulation of transcriptional responses during inflammation and the impact of environmental factors on them, and has just accepted the position of assistant professor at the University of Thessaly, Greece.

scholarly journals First person – Alexandra Lubin

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput ◽  
Drug Screening ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
High Throughput Drug Screening ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
University College London ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
Screening Platform ◽  
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. Alexandra Lubin is first author on ‘ A versatile, automated and high-throughput drug screening platform for zebrafish embryos’, published in BiO. Alexandra is a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Elspeth Payne at University College London (UCL), London, UK, investigating high-throughput automated drug screening in live zebrafish to discover novel therapeutics for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

scholarly journals First person – Xin Huang

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. bio058547
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Selective Pressures ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
Scale Population ◽  
Postdoctoral 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. Xin Huang is first author on ‘Dissecting dynamics and differences of selective pressures in the evolution of human pigmentation’, published in BiO. Xin conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Li Jin, Yungang He's laboratory, Shanghai, China. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the lab of Ryan Gutenkunst at University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, investigating new methods and tools to quantify natural selection from large-scale population genomic data.

scholarly journals First person – Jean Castillo

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (13) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Signal Transduction ◽  
Cell Shape ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cell Behavior ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
Washington 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. Jean Castillo is first author on ‘ An optogenetic model reveals cell shape regulation through FAK and fascin’, published in JCS. Jean is a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of N. Gautam at Washington University in St Louis, MO, USA, investigating signal transduction, optogenetics and cell behavior.

scholarly journals First person – Craig Keenan

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046193
Keyword(s):  
Degenerative Joint Disease ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Joint Disease ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The University ◽  
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. Craig Keenan is first author on ‘Post-traumatic osteoarthritis development is not modified by postnatal chondrocyte deletion of Ccn2’, published in DMM. Craig conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Dr Blandine Poulet's lab at the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. He is now a lecturer in vertebrate physiology in the lab of Dr Jason Kirby at Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, investigating the roles of cartilage and bone in the pathogenesis of degenerative joint disease.

scholarly journals Future leader to watch – Eunice Tan

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Ecological Interactions ◽  
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. Eunice Tan is first author on ‘ Motion: enhancing signals and concealing cues’, published in BiO. Eunice is Assistant Professor in the department of Environmental Studies, at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, investigating the ecological interactions between animals, their predators, and the environment.

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 – Mohammad Yunus Ansari

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (22) ◽  
pp. jcs256644
Keyword(s):  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Cartilage Homeostasis ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Catabolic Response ◽  
Medical 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. Mohammad Yunus Ansari is first author on ‘Mitochondrial dysfunction triggers a catabolic response in chondrocytes via ROS-mediated activation of the JNK/AP1 pathway’, published in JCS. Mohammad Yunus is a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Tariq M Haqqi, at the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA, investigating the mechanism of regulation of mitochondrial function in articular cartilage and its role in cartilage homeostasis in health and disease.

scholarly journals First person – Roberta Azzarelli

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Tumor Stem Cells ◽  
Three Dimensional Model ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
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. Roberta Azzarelli is first author on ‘Three-dimensional model of glioblastoma by co-culturing tumor stem cells with human brain organoids’, published in BiO. Roberta conducted the research described in this article while a Rita Levi Montalcini fellow in Roberta Azzarelli's lab at Unit of Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy. She is now a research associate in the lab of Anna Philpott at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, investigating how stem cell and developmental biology can help tackle cancer.

scholarly journals First person – Tigist Tamir

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (14) ◽  
pp. jcs251116
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Progression ◽  
Therapy Resistance ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Comprehensive Cancer Center ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
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. Tigist Tamir is first author on ‘Gain-of-function genetic screen of the kinome reveals BRSK2 as an inhibitor of the NRF2 transcription factor’, published in JCS. Tigist conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Michael Ben Major's lab at Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. They are now a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Forest White at Koch Institute for Integrated Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, where they are interested in integrating cutting edge ‘omics’ technologies to better elucidate drivers of cancer progression and therapy resistance.

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