First person – Srija Bhagavatula

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. Srija Bhagavatula is first author on ‘A putative stem-loop structure in Drosophila crumbs is required for mRNA localisation in epithelia and germline cells’, published in JCS. Srija is a post-doc in the lab of Dr Elisabeth Knust at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany, investigating the significance of mRNA localization in epithelia.