Interactions of cytosolic tails in the Jen1 carboxylate transporter are critical for trafficking and transport activity

First person – Cláudia Barata-Antunes and Gabriel Talaia

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. Cláudia Barata-Antunes and Gabriel Talaia are co-first authors on ‘ Interactions of cytosolic tails in the Jen1 carboxylate transporter are critical for trafficking and transport activity’, published in JCS. Cláudia is a PhD student in the lab of Sandra Paiva at Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal, where her research interests focus on the study of nutrient transporters endocytosis and trafficking in yeast. Gabriel is a postdoc in the lab of Shawn Ferguson at Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA, investigating endocytic trafficking and the function of transmembrane proteins and lysosomal signaling in neurodegenerative disorders.