First person – Satish Bodakuntla

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. Satish Bodakuntla is first author on ‘Tubulin polyglutamylation is a general traffic-control mechanism in hippocampal neurons’, published in JCS. Satish is a postdoc in the lab of Dr Carsten Janke at Institut Curie, Orsay, France, investigating the molecular mechanisms behind microtubule organization and functions.