First person – Kerry Roby

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. Kerry Roby is first author on ‘ Loss of p19Arf Promotes Fibroblast Survival During Leucine Deprivation’, published in BiO. Kerry conducted the research described in this article while a postgraduate student in Sandra Ryeom's lab at the Perlman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He is now a Postdoc in the lab of Joseph McCarty at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, investigating the ‘normal’ cell populations of the tumor microenvironment, and how their manipulation promotes tumorigenesis.