First person – Manuela Blasco Pedreros

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. Manuela Blasco Pedreros is first author on ‘ Role of a novel uropod-like cell membrane protrusion in the pathogenesis of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis’, published in JCS. Manuela is a PhD student in the Anaerobic Parasites Laboratory (LPA) in Instituto Tecnológico Chascomús (INTECH), Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she investigates the cellular biology of the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis.