First person – Imadeddin Hijazi

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. Imadeddin Hijazi is first author on ‘Retrograde signaling mediates an adaptive survival response to endoplasmic reticulum stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae’, published in JCS. Imadeddin is an undergraduate research assistant in the lab of Amy Chang at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, investigating the mechanisms cells use to adapt to endoplasmic reticulum stress.