First person – Nicole Diggins

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. Nicole Diggins is the first author on ‘α5β1 integrin trafficking and Rac activation are regulated by APPL1 in a Rab5-dependent manner to inhibit cell migration’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Nicole is a PhD student in the lab of Donna Webb at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, investigating how the complex workings of the cell are disrupted by diseases such as viral infection or cancer.