First person – Nikita Sergejevs

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. Nikita Sergejevs is first author on ‘ Topology surveillance of the lanosterol demethylase CYP51A1 by signal peptide peptidase’, published in JCS. Nikita is a DPhil student in the lab of Professor Pedro Carvalho at Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK, investigating membrane protein quality control at the endoplasmic reticulum.