First person – Katherine Paine

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. Katherine Paine is first author on ‘ The phosphatase Glc7 controls the eisosomal response to starvation via post-translational modification of Pil1’, published in JCS. Katherine conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Chris MacDonald's lab at University of York, York, UK. She is now a Postdoc in the lab of Simon Wilkinson at Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, UK. During her PhD, she was interested in the regulation of cell surface membrane proteins but has now moved into the field of autophagy, where she is working to understand factors involved in regulating this process.