First person – Edismauro Freitas Filho

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. Edismauro Freitas Filho is first author on ‘ RACK1 plays a critical role in mast cell secretion and Ca2+ mobilization by modulating F-actin dynamics’, published in JCS. Edismauro conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Maria Célia Jamur's lab at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Bioagents, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Larissa Dias da Cunha at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Pathogenic Bioagents, University of São Paulo, investigating the role of signaling proteins and specific lipids in the initial events of signal transduction, cytoskeleton rearrangement and LC3-associated phagocytosis during immune cell responses.