First person – Setsuya Minami

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Setsuya Minami is first author on ‘ BAG6 contributes to glucose uptake by supporting the cell surface translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT4 ’, published in BIO. Setsuya is a PhD student in the lab of Hiroyuki Kawahara at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, investigating how proteins cause diseases.