First person – Abhishikt David Solomon

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. Abhishikt David Solomon is first author on ‘ γ-tubulin mediates DNA double-strand break repair’, published in JCS. David is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Aimin Peng at the Adams School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms of DNA double-strand break repair and genomic instability in the context of cancer biology, with the aim of identifying potential therapeutic targets for drug discovery.