First person – Felicity Sterling

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. Felicity Sterling is first author on ‘ StARD9 is a novel lysosomal kinesin required for membrane tubulation, cholesterol transport and Purkinje cell survival’, published in JCS. Felicity conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Kevin T. Vaughan's lab at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA, and in her own lab as assistant professor at Belmont University, Nashville, TN, USA. The Sterling lab is now investigating the contribution of lysosomal dynamics in rare pediatric neurodegenerative disorders.