First person – Kateryna Demydenko

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Kateryna Demydenko is first author on ‘ Ca2+ release via InsP3Rs enhances RyR recruitment during Ca2+ transients by increasing dyadic [Ca2+] in cardiomyocytes’, published in JCS. Kateryna is a PhD student in the lab of H. Llewelyn Roderick at KULeuven, Belgium. Her research aims to understand the role of Ca2+ signaling microdomains and how they differentially contribute to signaling specificity in regulating contractile and transcriptional responses in the cardiac myocytes.