Autophagy researchers.

Why do you study autophagy? i joined the sass lab to study autophagy in 1996 when i was an undergraduate in my second year. the lab was starting to work with a new model at that time: Drosophila. i stayed there for my phD, and i could graduate partly thanks to a soros fellowship that allowed me to work for 6 months at two excellent Drosophila genetics labs in szeged. the next big step was joining the renowned neufeld lab. i was hesitating whether i should change research fields when i was about to return to europe. i stayed because autophagy was getting really hot, and a job offer came from Budapest at the same time. soon i managed to obtain funding as well, so i have spent my whole career studying autophagy so far.