First person – Vartika Sharma

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. Vartika Sharma is first author on ‘ Deltex modulates Dpp morphogen gradient formation and affects Dpp signaling in Drosophila’, published in JCS. Vartika conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Ashim Mukherjee's lab at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. She is now a Postdoc in the lab of David Walker at University of California Los Angeles, USA, where she explores the molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging.