scholarly journals First person – Melanie Gartz

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. dmm047514
Keyword(s):  
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Cardiovascular Research ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
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. Melanie Gartz is first author on ‘Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) cardiomyocyte-secreted exosomes promote the pathogenesis of DMD-associated cardiomyopathy’, published in DMM. Melanie conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Jennifer Strande's lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Cardiovascular Research Center, Milwaukee, WI, USA. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Lawlor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Neuroscience Research Center, investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie cardiomyopathy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

scholarly journals First person – Tatiana Burrinha

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Synapse Loss ◽  
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. Tatiana Burrinha is first author on ‘ Upregulation of APP endocytosis by neuronal aging drives amyloid-dependent synapse loss’, published in JCS. Tatiana is a PhD student in the lab of Cláudia Guimas Almeida at the Chronic Diseases Research Center (CEDOC), NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal aging.

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 – 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 – Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Gland ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Tumor Development ◽  
Neck Region ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Field Cancerization ◽  
First Person ◽  
Head And Neck Region ◽  
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. Elin Schoultz and Ellen Johansson are co-first authors on ‘ Tissue architecture delineates field cancerization in BrafV600E-induced tumor development’, published in DMM. Elin is an MD, PhD student in the lab of Mikael Nilsson at Sahlgrenska Centre for Cancer Research, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg. She has a great interest in the thyroid gland in particular, and the mechanisms of tumor development, progression and treatment associated with epithelial carcinomas in general. Ellen is an MD, resident physician in oto-rhino-laryngology and postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Karin Roberg at Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Division of Cell Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, with broad interest the thyroid gland, tumors of the head and neck region, and the molecular mechanisms that are important for tumor initiation, development, and treatment.

scholarly journals First person – Evgeniya Karpova and Evgenii Komyshev

Biology Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. bio056622
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Research Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
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. Evgeniya Karpova and Evgenii Komyshev are co-first authors on ‘Quantifying Drosophila adults with the use of a smartphone’, published in BiO. Evgeniya is a postdoc in the lab of Nataly Gruntenko at the Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, investigating different aspects in insect neuro-hormonal stress response (on Drosophila model). Evgenii is a PhD student in the lab of Dmitry Afonnikov at the Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, investigating information technologies in genetics.

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.

First person – Alexander Johnson

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (15) ◽  
pp. jcs251108
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Evaluation ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Quantitative Imaging ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Plant Model ◽  
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. Alexander Johnson is first author on ‘Experimental toolbox for quantitative evaluation of clathrin-mediated endocytosis in the plant model Arabidopsis’, published in JCS. Alexander is a postdoc in the lab of Jiri Friml at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, investigating the characterization of the molecular mechanisms of endocytosis in plants using a range of quantitative imaging and biochemical approaches.

scholarly journals First person – Chady Hakim

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Muscular Dystrophy ◽  
Fiber Type ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Preclinical Development ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Type Switch ◽  
The University

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. Chady Hakim is first author on ‘ Extensor carpi ulnaris muscle shows unexpected slow-to-fast fiber-type switch in Duchenne muscular dystrophy dogs’, published in DMM. Chady is a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Dongsheng Duan at the University of Missouri, Colombia, MO, USA, investigating the preclinical development of gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), with a particular interest in using the canine DMD model.

scholarly journals First person – Fumiya Okawa, Yutaro Hama and Sidi Zhang

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
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. 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.

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