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. Shalini Umachandran is first author on ' A PKC that controls polyphosphate levels, pinocytosis and exocytosis, regulates stationary phase onset in Dictyostelium', published in JCS. Shalini is a PhD student in the lab of Ramamurthy Baskar at Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta

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... of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India, investigating the role of PKC in delaying stationary phase onset in Dictyostelium.