First person – Francesco Consolato

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. Francesco Consolato is joint first author on ‘m-AAA and i-AAA complexes coordinate to regulate OMA1, the stress-activated supervisor of mitochondrial dynamics’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Francesco is a postdoc in the lab of Giorgio Casari at San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy, investigating basic cell biology such as the interaction and regulation of metallopeptidase and their substrates.