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 – 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 – Laura Tamberg

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. dmm046532
Keyword(s):  
Transcription Factor ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Model System ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
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. Laura Tamberg is first author on ‘Daughterless, the Drosophila orthologue of TCF4, is required for associative learning and maintenance of the synaptic proteome’, published in DMM. Laura is a PhD student in the lab of Tõnis Timmusk at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Her research involves investigating the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription factor TCF4-related neuronal 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.

scholarly journals First person – Andreia Nunes

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Disease Mechanisms ◽  
The University ◽  
Selection Of

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.

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 – Katherine Robinson

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Flow Cytometry ◽  
Rapid Detection ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
Transgenic Zebrafish ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Spinocerebellar Ataxia 3 ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Sydney Australia

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. Katherine Robinson is first author on ‘ Flow cytometry allows rapid detection of protein aggregates in cellular and zebrafish models of spinocerebellar ataxia 3’, published in DMM. Katherine is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Angela Laird at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, using pre-clinical animal models (transgenic zebrafish and mice) to find new therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Gideon Hughes

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. dmm047415
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Tissue Regeneration ◽  
Model Organism ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Zebrafish Model ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. 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.

scholarly journals First person – Éva Saskői

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. dmm047407
Keyword(s):  
Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽  
Tumor Suppressor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Éva Saskői is first author on ‘The SDHB Arg230His mutation causing familial paraganglioma alters glycolysis in a new Caenorhabditis elegans model’, published in DMM. Éva is a PhD student in the lab of Krisztina Takács-Vellai at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, investigating the developmental functions of tumor suppressor homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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.

scholarly journals First person – Elia Escasany

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lipid Metabolism ◽  
Growth Factor ◽  
Renal Fibrosis ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
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 Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Elia Escasany is first author on ‘ Transforming growth factor β3 deficiency promotes defective lipid metabolism and fibrosis in murine kidney’, published in DMM. Elia is a PhD student in the lab of Gema Medina-Gómez at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, investigating the role of TGFβ in renal fibrosis.

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