First person – Suman Samanta

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. Suman Samanta is first author on ‘ Syntaxin-2 balances phagocytic uptake and phagolysosomal clearance in macrophages’, published in JCS. Suman is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Rupak Datta at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Nadia, India. His research focuses on host–pathogen interactions, exploring how secretory factors from intracellular pathogens like Leishmania manipulate host iron homeostasis and phagocytosis.