First person – Nicholas Maskalenko

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. Nicholas Maskalenko is first author on ‘The DISC1–Girdin complex – a missing link in signaling to the T cell cytoskeleton’, published in JCS. Nicholas is a postdoc in the lab of Martin Poenie at The University of Texas at Austin, investigating the activation and effector functions of immune cells.