Congratulations, First person - Ajay Pradhan
12 Dec 2025
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. Ajay Pradhan is first
author on' Maturation stage-specific V-ATPase disassembly explains the neutral pH of mature mucocyst
!ysosome-related organelles in Tetrahymena thermophi/a', published in JCS. Ajay is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Santosh Kumar at the BRIC-NationalCentre for Cell Science, Pune,India, investigating the formation and maintenance of lysosome-related organelles.