First person – Debasna Panigrahi

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. Debasna Panigrahi is first author on ‘ The inner mitochondrial membrane fission protein MTP18 serves as a mitophagy receptor to prevent apoptosis in oral cancer’, published in JCS. Debasna conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Research Scholar in Dr Sujit Kumar Bhutia's lab at National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha, India. She is now a DBT Research Associate in the lab of Dr Arvind Ramanathan at Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine, Bengaluru, India, investigating the regulation of the balance between mitochondrial division and recycling for optimal cellular health.