First person – Dushyant Gautam

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. Dushyant Gautam is first author on ‘ Methotrexate alleviates chronic inflammation in a Drosophila model’, published in JCS. Dushyant conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Indira Paddibhatla and Professor Ravi Kumar Gutti's lab at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Emmanouil Tampakakis at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, investigating how stress, inflammation and immune signalling networks intersect with metabolism to shape cell fate and preserve tissue homeostasis.