First person – Mohona Gupta

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. Mohona Gupta is first author on ‘ Inpp5e is crucial for photoreceptor outer segment maintenance’, published in JCS. Mohona conducted the research described in this article while a Graduate student in Gregory J. Pazour's lab at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, USA. She is now a Postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Markus Delling at University of California, San Francisco, USA, investigating how defects in primary cilia – cellular antennae essential for human health – trigger devastating multi-organ diseases, with the goal of developing new therapeutic strategies for currently incurable disorders affecting the kidneys and eyes.