First person – Rujuta Deshpande

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rujuta Deshpande is first author on ‘ TOR signalling is required for host lipid metabolic remodelling and survival following enteric infection in Drosophila’, published in DMM. Rujuta conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Savraj Grewal's lab at Clark H. Smith Brain Tumour Centre, Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. She is now a Postdoctoral Associate in the lab of Dr Derek McKay at Calvin, Phoebe & Joan Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, investigating the role of human interleukin (IL)4-activated macrophages in wound healing of the intestinal epithelium as a new treatment for inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD).