First person – Vividha Raunekar

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. Vividha Raunekar is first author on ‘ Glucose deprivation induces AMPK-dependent ɑ-actinin-4 expression to sustain energy efficient non-proteolytic migration’, published in JCS. Vividha conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Shamik Sen's lab at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, India, investigating how metabolic and signaling cues regulate cell surface organization and cytoskeletal dynamics – particularly glycocalyx remodeling and energy-efficient modes of cell migration in cancer cells.