First person – Marcelo da Silva

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. Marcelo da Silva is first author on ‘ Clues on the dynamics of DNA replication in Giardia lamblia’, published in JCS. Marcelo conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral fellow in Maria Carolina Elias's lab at Cell Cycle Laboratory, Butantan Institute, São Paulo, Brazil. He is now a newly hired PI at the Chemistry Institute, University of São Paulo, Brazil, investigating DNA metabolism of single-celled parasites.