First person – Cecilia Alejandra Vazquez

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. Cecilia Alejandra Vazquez is first author on ‘ Intracellular lipid droplets are exploited by Junín virus in a nucleoprotein-dependent process’, published in JCS. Cecilia Alejandra is a postdoc in the lab of Dr Sandra M. Cordo and Dr Cybele C. García at Universidad de Buenos Aires Int, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she is interested in all things regarding the ‘One Health’ concept of optimizing the health of people, animals and ecosystems. In particular, I am passionate about host–pathogen interactions, how they can be affected by the environment and how understanding them can lead to the development of new therapies.