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…
Prof. Dr. Claudine Kraft 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? During my PhD, I studied proteasomal protein degradation; I then heard about that other degradation system in the cell,…
Prof. Dr. Anne Simonsen 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? Science took me into the autophagy field. I was working with endocytosis and FYVE proteins (PI3P binding) and cloned…
Prof. Dr. Fulvio Reggiori 1. How did you get into the autophagy field and why is the field important to you? As a PhD student and postdoc, I have been studying intracellular vesicular trafficking and I got interested about how…
