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 – Ekaterina Migunova

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Cardiac Hypertrophy ◽  
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. Ekaterina Migunova is first author on ‘ ELAC2/RNaseZ-linked cardiac hypertrophy in Drosophila melanogaster’, published in DMM. Ekaterina is a PhD student in the lab of Edward Dubrovsky at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA, investigating the role of ELAC2 mutations in cardiomyopathy.

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 – Matt Johansen

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mycobacterium Abscessus ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Disease Pathogenesis ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
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. Matt Johansen is first author on ‘ Mycobacteriophage–antibiotic therapy promotes enhanced clearance of drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus’, published in DMM. Matt completed the research described in this article while a postdoc in the lab of Laurent Kremer at Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, and is now a postdoc in the lab of Phil Hansbro at the Centre for Inflammation, Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, investigating the disease pathogenesis of infectious organisms and deciphering host–pathogen interactions.

scholarly journals First person – Chloe Stanton

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Eye Diseases ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Brittle Cornea Syndrome ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
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. Chloe Stanton is first author on ‘ A mouse model of brittle cornea syndrome caused by mutation in Zfp469’, published in DMM. Chloe is a postdoc in the lab of Dr Veronique Vitart at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, investigating the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying eye diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Xinrui Wang

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. dmm047829
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage Response ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Damage Response ◽  
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. Xinrui Wang is first author on ‘Myh6-driven Cre recombinase activates the DNA damage response and the cell cycle in the myocardium in the absence of loxP sites’, published in DMM. Xinrui is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of John Auchampach at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA, investigating cellular and molecular mechanisms of myocardium re-muscularization after injury.

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 – Komal Panchal

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. bio055632
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Rho Gtpase ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Disease Associated Genes ◽  
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. Komal Panchal is first author on ‘Miro, a Rho GTPase genetically interacts with Alzheimer's disease-associated genes (Tau, Aβ42 and Appl) in Drosophila melanogaster’, published in BiO. Komal is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Anand K. Tiwari at the Institute of Advanced Research (IAR), Koba Institutional Area, Gujarat, India, investigating the possible molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease.

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 – 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 – Manuela Santalla

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Heart Function ◽  
Fruit Fly ◽  
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 Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Manuela Santalla is first author on ‘Testing the effect of tobacco cigarettes on heart function of Drosophila melanogaster’, published in BiO. Manuela is a postdoc in the lab of Dr. Paola Ferrero, interested in understanding how the heart works. She studies the physiology of the heart of the fruit fly and how different conditions affect it.

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