First person – Fernando Salgado-Polo

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. Fernando Salgado-Polo is first author on ‘Sequence-dependent trafficking and activity of GDE2, a GPI-specific phospholipase promoting neuronal differentiation’, published in JCS. Fernando is a PhD student in the lab of Anastassis Perrakis at The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, investigating biochemical characterization of (lyso)phospholipases and their biological roles in cell signaling.