First person – Shannon McMahon

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. Shannon McMahon is first author on 'DNAJB chaperones suppress destabilised protein aggregation via a region distinct from that used to inhibit amyloidogenesis', published in JCS. Shannon is a PhD student in the lab of Heath Ecroyd at Molecular Horizons and the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, investigating whether the intrinsic proteostasis machinery can be manipulated to combat neurodegenerative diseases.