First person – Shrena Chakraborty

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shrena Chakraborty is first author on ‘ The fission yeast SUMO-targeted ubiquitin ligase Slx8 functionally associates with clustered centromeres and the silent mating-type region at the nuclear periphery’, published in BIO. Shrena conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Dr Sarah Lambert at Institut Curie, Orsay, France, and will soon join the same team as a research engineer, investigating molecular mechanisms in cells using cell biology approaches.