First person – Marie Hugenroth

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. Marie Hugenroth is first author on ‘ Role of Pex31 in metabolic adaptation of the nucleus–vacuole junction’, published in JCS. Marie is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Maria Bohnert at University of Münster, Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, Germany, where she uses genome-wide microscopy-based screening approaches to investigate organelle communication and membrane homeostasis in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.