First person – Sebabrata Maity

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. Sebabrata Maity is first author on ‘The endoplasmic reticulum protein FAM134B acts as a regulator of mitochondrial morphology’, published in JCS. Sebabrata is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Oishee Chakrabarti at Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India, where he investigates structural and functional crosstalk between the endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria and its impact upon human diseases.