First person – Raven Peterson

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. Raven Peterson is first author on ‘ Apical integrins as a switchable target to regulate the epithelial barrier’, published in JCS. Raven conducted the research described in this article while a pre-doctoral fellow in Mike Koval's lab at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA. They are now a Go-to-Market New Product Readiness Leader at Benchling, San Francisco, CA, USA.