First person – Taisuke Seike

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. Taisuke Seike is first author on ‘The asymmetric chemical structures of two mating pheromones reflect their differential roles in mating of fission yeast’, published in JCS. Taisuke conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral Fellow in Hironori Niki's lab at Genetics Strains Research Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan. He is now a Special Postdoctoral Researcher in the lab of Chikara Furusawa at Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKENOsaka, Japan, investigating the mechanism and evolution of pheromone recognition systems in yeast.