First person – Paul Ann Riya and Budhaditya Basu

ABSTRACT. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Paul Ann Riya and Budhaditya Basu are co-first authors on ‘ HES1 promoter activation dynamics reveal the plasticity, stemness and heterogeneity in neuroblastoma cancer stem cells’, published in JCS. Paul Ann Riya is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Jackson James at Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, investigating the key mechanisms that maintain stem cells. Budhaditya Basu is a PhD student in same lab, where he works on understanding the role of circular RNA in axon path finding.

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