First person – Prachi Joshi, Arnav Saha and Radhika Malaviya

Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Prachi Joshi, Arnav Saha and Radhika Malaviya are co-first authors on ‘ AXL receptor tyrosine kinase regulates Golgi organization and function via an adhesion-Arf1 signalling axis in breast and lung cancer cell lines’, published in BiO. Prachi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Professor Nagaraj Balasubramanian's lab at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, Pune, India. She is now a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Professor Martin Schwartz at Yale University Cardiovascular Research Center, New Haven, CT, USA, investigating the mechanisms by which cells respond to extracellular mechanical cues and how these signals regulate cell function and contribute to disease. Arnav is a PhD student in the lab of Professor Nagaraj Balasubramanian at IISER Pune, investigating how cell-extracellular (ECM) adhesion, signal transduction and organelle mechanobiology integrate to regulate cancer mechanobiology and cellular behaviour. Radhika is a PhD student in the same lab, investigating the effects of cell-ECM adhesion and matrix stiffness on organelle structure and function.