First person – Patricia Essebier

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. Patricia Essebier is first author on ‘ c-Src-induced vascular malformations require localised matrix degradation at focal adhesions’, published in JCS. Patricia conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Emma Gordon's lab at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia. She is currently a PhD student in the lab of Anne Lagendijk at the same institute, where she uses 2D and 3D tissue culture to understand cell–matrix interactions through focal adhesions in vascular endothelial cells.