First person – Benjamin Walters

Abstract

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. Benjamin Walters is first author on ‘ Divergent functions of histone acetyltransferases KAT2A and KAT2B in keratinocyte self-renewal and differentiation’, published in JCS. Benjamin conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student with the A*STAR Research Attachment Programme (ARAP) in Dr Chin Yan Lim's lab at Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore. He is now a Hope Funds for Cancer Research Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Bluma Lesch at Yale School of Medicine, USA, where he is currently interested in exploring how parental experiences can affect the health of offspring through the inheritance of germline epigenetic information.