First person – Mitro Miihkinen

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. Mitro Miihkinen is co-first author on ‘ProLIF – quantitative integrin protein–protein interactions and synergistic membrane effects on proteoliposomes’, published in the ‘Reconstituting Cell Biology’ special issue of Journal of Cell Science. Mitro is a PhD student in the lab of Johanna Ivaska at Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland, investigating the role of integrins and filopodia in cancer cell invasion.