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.

scholarly journals First person – Gabriel Matos-Rodrigues

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. dmm047423
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage Response ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Neuronal Degeneration ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disease Models ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Damage Response ◽  
Retinal Dysplasia ◽  
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. Gabriel Matos-Rodrigues is first author on ‘Progenitor death drives retinal dysplasia and neuronal degeneration in a mouse model of ATRIP-Seckel syndrome’, published in DMM. Gabriel conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Rodrigo A. P. Martins's lab at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is now a PhD student in the lab of Bernard S. Lopez at Université de Paris, Paris, France, investigating mechanisms of DNA repair and DNA damage response.

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 – 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.

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 – Alessandra da Silva Dantas

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (24) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fungal Pathogens ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Medical Mycology ◽  
First Person ◽  
Postdoctoral Fellow ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
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. Alessandra da Silva Dantas is first author on ‘ Crosstalk between the calcineurin and cell wall integrity pathways prevents chitin overexpression in Candida albicans’, published in JCS. Alessandra is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Prof. Neil Gow at the Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology at the University of Exeter, UK, and is interested in the mechanisms controlling cell division and death in human fungal pathogens.

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 – 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 – 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 – Fabiola García Fernández

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (6) ◽  
pp. jcs258591
Keyword(s):  
Dna Damage ◽  
Genome Stability ◽  
Chromosome Structure ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Saint Louis ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Damage Repair ◽  
Damage Response ◽  
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. Fabiola García Fernández is first author on ‘Modified chromosome structure casued by phosphomimetic H2A modulates the DNA damage response by increasing chromatin mobility in yeast’, published in JCS. Fabiola is a PhD student in the lab of Emmanuelle Fabre at Institut de recherche Saint-Louis, Université de Paris, France, investigating DNA damage repair and genome stability.

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