First person – Sandra Vidak

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sandra Vidak is the first author on ‘Nucleoplasmic lamins define growth-regulating functions of lamina-associated polypeptide 2α in progeria cells’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Sandra Vidak is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Tom Misteli at the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, investigating how the impairment of protein quality control mechanisms contributes to the progression of the premature ageing disease Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS).