scholarly journals First person – Kia Wee Tan

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (14) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
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. Kia Wee Tan is first author on ‘ JIP4 is recruited by the phosphoinositide-binding protein Phafin2 to promote recycling tubules on macropinosomes’, published in JCS. Kia Wee is a PhD student in the lab of Harald Stenmark at the Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, investigating membrane trafficking.

scholarly journals First person – Mira Kuzmić

2022 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Stress Fibers ◽  
First Person ◽  
Septin 9 ◽  
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. Mira Kuzmić is first author on ‘ Septin-microtubule association via a motif unique to isoform 1 of septin 9 tunes stress fibers’, published in JCS. Mira conducted the research described in this article while a post-doc in the lab of Dr Ali Badache and Dr Pascal Verdier-Pinard's at Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille (CRCM), France. Her life's vocation is cancer research.

scholarly journals First person – Lucie Wolf

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (16) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Cellular Communication ◽  
Research Center ◽  
First Person ◽  
German Cancer Research ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
The Many ◽  
Postdoctoral Researcher ◽  
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. Lucie Wolf is first author on ‘ EVI/WLS function is regulated by ubiquitylation and linked to ER-associated degradation by ERLIN2’, published in JCS. Lucie works in the lab of Michael Boutros at German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany, investigating the many regulatory layers of cellular communication. She is now a postdoctoral researcher, but was a PhD student when the manuscript was submitted.

scholarly journals First person – Mélody Wintrebert

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (4) ◽  
pp. jcs258481
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Research ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Fission Yeast ◽  
Meiotic Recombination ◽  
Nuclear Import ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Dna Break ◽  
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. Mélody Wintrebert is joint first author on ‘Activation of meiotic recombination by nuclear import of the DNA break hotspot-determining complex in fission yeast’, published in JCS. Mélody conducted the research described in this article while a Master’s student in Gerry Smith's lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA. She is now a PhD student in the labs of Frédéric Relaix and Laurent Tiret at Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Créteil, and Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons Alfort, France, investigating cellular and molecular biology.

scholarly journals First person – Bernhard N. Bohnert

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
First Person ◽  
Glomerular Injury ◽  
Oedema Formation ◽  
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 Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Bernhard N. Bohnert is first author on ‘ Essential role of DNA-PKcs and plasminogen for the development of doxorubicin-induced glomerular injury in mice’, published in DMM. Bernhard is a physician/postdoc in the lab of Prof. Dr. med. Ferruh Artunc at the University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, investigating oedema formation in nephrotic syndrome.

scholarly journals First person – Andria A. Lytridou

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (20) ◽  
pp. jcs255208
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress ◽  
Binding Protein ◽  
Early Career ◽  
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 Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Andria A. Lytridou is first author on ‘Stbd1 promotes glycogen clustering during endoplasmic reticulum stress and supports survival of mouse myoblasts’, published in JCS. Andria is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Petros P. Petrou at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus, investigating the role of the glycogen-binding protein Stbd1 in physiological and pathological processes.

scholarly journals First person – Chunchu Deng

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (22) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
First Person ◽  
Local Translation ◽  
Axon Terminals ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Motoneuron Diseases ◽  
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. Chunchu Deng is co-first author on ‘ Dynamic remodeling of ribosomes and endoplasmic reticulum in axon terminals of motoneurons’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Chunchu is a PhD Student in the lab of Professor Michael Sendtner at the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology, University Hospital Würzburg, Germany, investigating the dynamics of the endoplasmic reticulum and local translation in motoneurons, and their involvement in motoneuron diseases.

scholarly journals First person – Anna D'Amico

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (21) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Immunofluorescence Microscopy ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Albany Medical College ◽  
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. Anna D'Amico is first author on ‘ PKC-ε regulates vesicle delivery and focal exocytosis for efficient IgG-mediated phagocytosis’, published in JCS. Anna is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Michelle R. Lennartz at Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA, where she is using immunofluorescence microscopy to investigate the mechanism underlying the role of PKC-ε in membrane trafficking.

scholarly journals First person – Miguel Burgos

2021 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pancreatitis ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
The University ◽  
Postdoctoral Researcher ◽  
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. Miguel Burgos is first author on ‘The p.E152K-STIM1 mutation deregulates Ca2+ signaling contributing to chronic pancreatitis’, published in JCS. Miguel conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in Olivier Mignen's lab at the Université de Brest, Brest, France. He is now a senior postdoctoral researcher and Associate Professor in the lab of Alberto Ocaña at Albacete University Hospital and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, investigating the pathophysiology of calcium homeostasis.

scholarly journals First person – Sampo Kukkurainen

2020 ◽  
Vol 133 (19) ◽  
pp. jcs254615
Keyword(s):  
Structural Biology ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Atomic Level ◽  
Early Career ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
First Person ◽  
Integrin Activation ◽  
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. Sampo Kukkurainen is first author on ‘The F1 loop of the talin head domain acts as a gatekeeper in integrin activation and clustering’, published in JCS. Sampo conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Vesa Hytönen's lab at Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere, Finland. He is now a researcher at Tampere University Hospital. His PhD was on the mechanobiology of talin and integrin, analyzing their atomic level interactions using computational structural biology tools.

First person – Hannah Black and Rachel Livingstone

2022 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Membrane Trafficking ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Glucose Transporter ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Person ◽  
Transporter Protein ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Syntaxin 4 ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
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. Hannah Black and Rachel Livingstone are co-first authors on ‘ Knockout of syntaxin-4 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes reveals new insight into GLUT4 trafficking and adiponectin secretion’, published in JCS. Hannah conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Nia Bryant and Professor Gwyn Gould's lab at the Henry Wellcome Laboratory for Cell Biology, University of Glasgow, UK. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Professor Nia Bryant at the Department of Biology, University of York, UK, investigating membrane trafficking of the glucose transporter protein GLUT4. Rachel is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Gwyn Gould at the Henry Wellcome Laboratory for Cell Biology, University of Glasgow, UK, where she is also investigating membrane trafficking of GLUT4.

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