First person – Yuichiro Saito

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. Yuichiro Saito is first author on ‘RIF1 controls replication initiation and homologous recombination repair in a radiation dose-dependent manner’, published in JCS. Yuichiro conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Kenshi Komatsu's lab at Department of Genome Repair Dynamics, at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Masato T. Kanemaki at Department of Chromosome Science, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, investigating maintenance of the genome integrity in human cells.