Abstract
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. Francisca Vitorino is first author on ‘ The antiproliferative effect of FGF2 in K-Ras-driven tumor cells involves modulation of rRNA and the nucleolus’, published in JCS. Francisca conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Julia Pinheiro Chagas da Cunha's lab at Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil. She is now a Research Lab supervisor in the lab of Benjamin A. Garcia at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her research interest is in mass spectrometry-based proteomics, focusing on chromatin proteome and histone post-translational modifications.
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