First person – Erika Arias

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. Erika Arias is first author on ‘ EdU tracking of leukocyte recruitment in mouse models of ischemic stroke and sterile lung inflammation’, published in JCS. Erika is a PhD student in the lab of Dr William Muller at Department of Pathology, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, where she investigates the role of neutrophils in ischemic stroke.