First person – Topaz Altman

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. Topaz Altman is first author on ‘An in vitro compartmental system underlines the contribution of mitochondrial immobility to the ATP supply in the NMJ’, published in JCS. Topaz is an MD/PhD student in the lab of Eran Perlson at Tel Aviv University, Israel, investigating basic neurodegenerative mechanisms leading to selective motor neuron death.