First person – Alex van Vliet

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. Alex van Vliet is first author on ‘ Exploring the ATG9A interactome uncovers interaction with VPS13A’, published in JCS. Alex conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral Training Fellow in Sharon Tooze's lab at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK. He is now an MRC Postdoc in the lab of Sean Munro at MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, investigating the mechanisms of membrane trafficking.