First person – Shweta Prassanawar

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. Shweta Prassanawar is first author on ‘ CEP41, a ciliopathy-linked centrosomal protein, regulates microtubule assembly and cell proliferation’, published in JCS. Shweta conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Professor Dulal Panda at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Dulal Panda's lab, investigating cellular processes governing growth and development.