First person – Anna Gavrilova

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. Anna Gavrilova is first author on ‘ The role of kinesin-1 in neuronal dense core vesicle transport, locomotion and lifespan regulation in C. elegans’, published in JCS. Anna is a PhD student in the lab of Viki Allan at the University of Manchester, UK, investigating experimental studies, data analysis and mathematical modelling of intracellular transport.