First person – Mitchell Leih

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. Mitchell Leih is first author on ‘ Disordered hinge regions of the AP-3 adaptor complex promote vesicle budding from the late Golgi in yeast’, published in JCS. Mitchell is a PhD Student in the lab of Greg Odorizzi at the University of Colorado, Boulder, investigating adaptor protein complexes and their dynamics in membrane trafficking.