First person – Mustafa Aydogan and Laura Hankins

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 early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Mustafa Aydogan and Laura Hankins are co-first authors on ‘ Centriole distal-end proteins CP110 and Cep97 influence centriole cartwheel growth at the proximal end’, published in JCS. Mustafa is now a group leader at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Broadly, his group focuses on fundamental mechanisms of time control in early metabolism and development, with a particular interest in autonomous clocks that can run independently of the cell cycle and/or the circadian clock. He performed this work while a PhD student in the lab of Jordan Raff, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK. Laura was also a PhD student at the lab of Jordan Raff, where she was studying the process of centriole biogenesis, with a particular focus on how these organelles grow to the right size. She is now a Science Communications Officer at The Company of Biologists Ltd, Histon, Cambridge, UK.