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 joini...