First person – Md Noor Akhtar

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Md Noor Akhtar is first author on ‘ Hominini-specific regulation of the cell cycle by stop codon readthrough of FEM1B’, published in JCS. Md Noor is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Sandeep M. Eswarappa at Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, where his research focuses on unravelling the mechanisms of genetic recoding and its physiological significance.