First person – Luisa F. Arias Padilla and Jonathan Munera Lopez

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. Luisa F. Arias Padilla and Jonathan Munera Lopez are co-first authors on ‘ The initiation and early development of apical–basal polarity in Toxoplasma gondii’, published in JCS. Luisa is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the lab of Ke Hu at Arizona State University, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, USA, investigating cellular dynamics and complexity. Jonathan is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the same lab investigating Toxoplasma gondii cell biology.