First person – Samuele Metti

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. Samuele Metti is co-first author on ‘ Native collagen VI delays early muscle stem cell differentiation’, published in JCS. Samuele conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Prof. Paolo Bonaldo's lab at University of Padova, Italy. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Gisou van der Goot at School of Life Science, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, investigating how extracellular matrix proteins affect muscle stem cell behaviour.