First person – Ferheen Abbasi

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. Ferheen Abbasi is co-first author on ‘RSPH6A is required for sperm flagellum formation and male fertility in mice’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Ferheen conducted the research in this article while an MSc student in the lab of Dr Masahito Ikawa at Osaka University, Japan. She is now enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program, hoping to continue investigating reproductive biology, male and female fertility, and working towards finding new forms of contraception.