First person – Daniela Sparvoli

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 early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Daniela Sparvoli is first author on ‘ Diversification of CORVET tethers facilitates transport complexity in Tetrahymena thermophila’, published in JCS. Daniela conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Aaron P. Turkewitz's lab at The University of Chicago, IL. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Maryse Lebrun at Université de Montpellier, France, where she is interested in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying membrane trafficking in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a unicellular eukaryote.