First person – Yuka Takeo

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. Yuka Takeo is first author on ‘ γ-secretase facilitates retromer-mediated retrograde transport’, published in JCS. Yuka is an Associate Research Scientist in the lab of Daniel DiMaio at the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA, investigating virus–cell interaction in human papillomavirus entry.