2026/02/15 · 1 voice
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation #Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry #Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1242/bio.062502
openalex publication_date 2026/02/15 · openalex created_date 2026/02/19 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sriikhar Vedurupaka and Bita Jadali are co-first authors on ‘ A protocadherin mediates oral placode morphogenesis in the tunicate Ciona’, published in BiO. Sriikhar is an undergraduate researcher in the lab of Dr Alberto Stolfi at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, investigating the neurodevelopment of model organisms and their cellular and molecular mechanisms. Bita is a PhD student in the same lab, investigating the mechanisms and signalling of neural death during tunicate metamorphosis.