First person – Mallika Bhattacharya

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. Mallika Bhattacharya is first author on ‘ Steroid hormone signaling synchronizes cell migration machinery, adhesion and polarity to direct collective movement’, published in JCS. Mallika conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Michelle Starz-Gaiano's lab at University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr Elissa Lei at NIDDK, Bethesda, USA. She is excited by basic biology questions in the field of developmental biology and is currently investigating the regulation of 3D chromatin architecture during development.