1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I came into “autophagy field” by the study of membrane trafficking regulators, especially VPS34 and its lipidic product PI3P. I was indeed previously…
Prof. Dr. Ana Martinez 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? My scientific goals are focused in drug discovery for different unmet human diseases. In the last 20 years I…
Prof. Dr. Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I took a course on electron microscopy during my MSc studies, and fell in love with the method. Then…
1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? Just after my master degree, I started to work on polymeric vectors and formulations for vaccine application. I never thought I would still…
Dr. Ole Pless 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I was first exposed to autophagy during a joint project with the research group of Prof. Dr. Lucie Carrier from…
Dr. Judith Farres 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? Anaxomics technology is not disease focused but our collaboration with some researchers in the field (Caty Casas) brought us in…
Prof. Dr. Heinz Jungbluth 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I work as a Child Neurologist and my interest in autophagy was stimulated by a single patient, an unfortunate…
Dr. Vladimir Kirkin 1.How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I entered the field in 2006 when doing work on ubiquitin-like proteins in the group of Ivan Dikic in Frankfurt. Back…
1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I found new genes, human WIPI1 through WIPI4/WDR45, and initially observed that WIPI1 should function in autophagy. I had not studied autophagy before…
Dr. Patricia Boya 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? I was interested in the relationship between lysosomes and cell death and found that autophagy was a pro-survival pathway in…
