First person – Heather Baker

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. Heather Baker is first author on ‘ The co-chaperone DNAJA2 buffers proteasomal degradation of cytosolic proteins with missense mutations’, published in JCS. Heather is a PhD student in the lab of Thibault Mayor at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, investigating cytosolic protein quality control.