First person – Astrid Boström

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. Astrid Boström is first author on ‘ Auxin-inducible degradation of UNC-116 in C. elegans inhibits bidirectional dense core vesicle transport and worm locomotion on different timescales’, published in JCS. Astrid is a postdoc in the lab of Viki Allan at The University of Manchester, UK, investigating the fundamentals of intracellular transport in neurons.