First person – Bina Prajapati

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. Bina Prajapati is co-first author on ‘ CCG-1423-derived compounds reduce global RNA synthesis and inhibit transcriptional responses’, published in JCS. Bina conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Maria Vartiainen's lab at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki. She is now also a lab coordinator at Finnish Genome Editing Centre (FINGEEC) with Topi Tervonen (FINGEEC PI) at the University of Helsinki. Bina is interested in anything and everything related to cellular health, stress response and disease targets.