First person – Alyssa Long

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. Alyssa Long is first author on ‘ ARL13B-Cerulean rescues Arl13b-null mouse from embryonic lethality and reveals a role for ARL13B in spermatogenesis’, published in JCS. Alyssa is a Senior Academic Research Scientist in the lab of Tamara Caspary at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA, investigating developmental biology with an emphasis on signaling, especially via the primary cilium.