Meet the preLighters: an interview with Sundar Naganathan
Sundar Naganathan is a postdoc at EPFL Lausanne in the lab of Prof Andrew Oates. Here, he studies the biophysical mechanisms of symmetry establishment using zebrafish. We caught up with Sundar to discuss his research, scientific career, and his community activities which involve being a preLighter. Let’s…
| Posted on | 8 December 2020 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Zhang-He Goh
Zhang-He Goh is a new PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Cambridge's Syntech CDT. He completed his undergraduate studies and research at the National University of Singapore and A*STAR, where his main research projects were focussed on tuberculosis and reducing the side-effects of anti-tuberculosis drugs. We caught up…
| Posted on | 12 October 2020 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Nicola Stevenson
Nicola Stevenson is a senior postdoc at the University of Bristol in the lab of Prof David Stephens and has worked on various cellular processes such as intracellular trafficking, ciliogenesis and extracellular matrix secretion. We caught up with Nicola to talk about her research and experience with preprints and preLights.…
| Posted on | 6 July 2020 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Tim Fessenden
Tim Fessenden is a postdoc in the Spranger Lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA. He studies how immune cells put themselves in the right place at the right time to initiate anti-tumour immunity. We caught up with Tim…
| Posted on | 10 March 2020 |
preLighter Meng Zhu talks about her scientific journey
In celebration of preLights' second birthday, The Company of Biologists featured preLights on its WeChat channel, aiming to reach a broad Chinese audience. For one of the posts (which you can find here), Annabel Nicholson (Science Communications Officer at the company) visited preLighter Meng Zhu at The University of Cambridge to…
| Posted on | 25 February 2020 |
Meet the preLighters: an interview with Mariana de Niz
Mariana de Niz is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr Luísa Figueiredo’s lab at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Lisbon, Portugal, where she studies the biophysics of trypanosomes in various tissues. We caught up with Mariana to discuss her experience in parasite research, microscopy, open science and what it’s like…
| Posted on | 7 January 2020 |