First person – Patrícia Rodrigues

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. Patrícia Rodrigues is first author on ‘ Dachsous is a key player in epithelial wound closure through modulating cell shape changes and tissue mechanics’, published in JCS. Patrícia conducted the research described in this article while a Master student in António Jacinto's lab at Nova Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal. She is now an Imaging Specialist in the Bioimaging Platform headed by José Rino at the Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, working with high-throughput microscopy, photomanipulation techniques and imaging analysis.