First person – Damián Lobato-Márquez and José Javier Conesa

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. Damián Lobato-Márquez and José Javier Conesa are co-first authors on ‘ Septins and K63 ubiquitin chains are present in separate bacterial microdomains during autophagy of entrapped Shigella’, published in JCS. Damián is a Research fellow in the lab of Serge Mostowy at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK, investigating bacterial pathogenesis and the cell-autonomous immune response. José Javier is a postdoctoral research assistant in the lab of Jose María Valpuesta at CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, where he works on structural biology method development.