First person – Aini Gusmira

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. Aini Gusmira is first author on ‘Regulation of caveolae through cholesterol-depletion-dependent tubulation mediated by PACSIN2’, published in JCS. Aini conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Shiro Suetsugu's lab at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She is now an academic staff member in the lab of Dr Anton Bahtiar at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Indonesia, investigating the role of the cell membrane in disease processes.