First person – Laura Westrate

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. Laura Westrate is first author on ‘Vesicular and uncoated Rab1-dependent cargo carriers facilitate ER to Golgi transport’, published in JCS. Laura conducted the research described in this article while a post-doctoral fellow in Dr Gia Voeltz's lab at University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA. She is now an Assistant Professor at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, investigating the mechanisms behind protein transport and sorting in the endoplasmic reticulum.