"..when I was a student, it was almost frowned upon if you told someone you want to leave the bench and go into industry. Now, companies do a lot of exciting work…"

Multi-award winner Kivanc Birsov is an Assistant Professor and independent group leader at Rockefeller University, USA where his research focuses on metabolic pathway changes in cancer and metabolic dysfunction. Here he speaks to Manuel Breuer about his working life.

This article and accompanying poster from Bradlee Heckmann and Douglas Green provides a broad overview of the LC3-associated phagocytic pathway and its role in a variety of physiological and pathological settings.

Sahana Mitra and Hyung Don Ryoo review the requirement of the unfolded protein response (UPR) in tissue development under physiological conditions of endoplasmic reticulum stress levels and discuss the high levels of specificity of different UPR branches during these developmental steps.

“…I know that it isn't the seasoned professional in his senior-author digs who will feel the most pain, but the shiny young trainees who burned their nights away generating the data that graces the many small graphs and images comprising the figures.”

Mole expounds on how to be a good referee.

Aurelie Bertin and Alexis Lomakin summarise the ideas and results presented at the Building the Cell meeting held in Paris in September. The meeting’s theme was the development of creative multidisciplinary approaches to understand cellular life at different scales in a dynamic and quantitative manner.

Travelling Fellowships – Expanded understanding of leukaemia treatment

We offer Travelling Fellowships of up to £2,500 to graduate students and post-doctoral researchers wishing to make collaborative visits to other laboratories. The next deadline to apply is 31 May 2019.

Alexander García Ponce used a Travelling Fellowship to go to the Sanquin Blood Bank in The Netherlands. There he investigated how hematopoietic stem cells cross the vascular wall and reach the bone marrow for his PhD project.

Call for papers - Cell Biology of the Immune System