First person – Precious Obioha Owuamalam

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Precious Obioha Owuamalam is first author on ‘ Nonsense mutations can increase mRNA levels’, published in BiO. Precious Obioha conducted the research described in this article while a The Darwin Trust of Edinburgh PhD research fellow in Dr Saverio Brogna's lab at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. He is now a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Dr Guilherme Costa at Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK, investigating how the spatial control of RNA helps regulate cell behaviour in health and disease.