First person – Shin Ohsawa

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. Shin Ohsawa is co-first author on ‘The methanol sensor Wsc1 and MAPK Mpk1 suppress degradation of methanol-induced peroxisomes in methylotrophic yeast’, published in JCS. Shin conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Yasuyoshi Sakai's lab at Kyoto University, Japan. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Marc Bühler at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, investigating sensing and signaling mechanisms involved in gene expression and cellular dynamics in yeast.