“…it is important for you as an individual scientist to find the best system to address your specific questions and also to look for synergies outside your own talents and knowledge base.”

Gloria Brar is Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Elçin Ünal is Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development. They tell us about running complementary labs at UC Berkeley investigating yeast.

Catch up with early-career first authors in our First Person interviews. Recently, we spoke to Norbert Volkmar and Priyanka Kothari.

Editorial - New Editor on Journal of Cell Science

We are very pleased to welcome Asifa Akhtar as an Editor of Journal of Cell Science. Asifa’s expertise covers molecular aspects of the nucleus. Our Editor in Chief Michael Way gives the highlights of her career, filled with outstanding scientific achievements.

Linear ubiquitin chains are crucial modulators of innate and adaptive immune responses that act by regulating inflammatory and cell death signalling. Maureen Spit, Eva Rieser and Henning Walczak put together this poster to explain it.

Review  - Lysosomal storage disorders – challenges, concepts and avenues for therapy: beyond rare diseases

André Marques and Paul Saftig review the current knowledge on the cellular processes involved in lysosomal storage disorders and discuss how understanding of these rare disorders could be applied to more common diseases.

Call for papers - Cell Biology of the Immune System