# First person – Kishalay Ghosh and Rohit Iyer

## TL;DR

This paper features an interview with Kishalay Ghosh and Rohit Iyer, who discuss their research on how cellular stress affects blood cell development in fruit flies.

## Contribution

The paper presents new insights into how genetic changes influence stress response and blood cell formation in Drosophila.

## Key findings

- Genetic perturbations affect cellular homeostasis and integrated stress response signaling.
- These changes regulate Drosophila hematopoiesis.
- The research highlights the role of stress response in blood cell development.

## 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. Kishalay Ghosh and Rohit Iyer are co-first authors on ‘
Genetic perturbation of cellular homeostasis regulates integrated stress response signaling to control Drosophila hematopoiesis’, published in BiO. Kishalay conducted the research described in this article while a project associate in Dr Rohan J. Khadilkar's lab at the Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Centre, Navi Mumbai, India. He is now a PhD student in the lab of Jaime De Juan-Sanz at ICM Paris Brain Institute, Hôpital Pitié, Paris, France, investigating metabolic regulation of neuronal circuit function and behaviour. Rohit is a project associate in the lab of Dr Rohan J. Khadilkar at ACTREC, India, investigating understanding the intricacies of host-pathogen interactions.