First person – Xuan Xie

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. Xuan Xie is the first author on ‘Deubiquitylases USP5 and USP13 are recruited to and regulate heat-induced stress granules through their deubiquitylating activities’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Xuan is a PhD student in the lab of Masayuki Komada at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan, investigating the roles of ubiquitylation and deubiquitylation in the regulation of stress granules.