First person – Bharti Nawalpuri

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. Bharti Nawalpuri is first author on ‘ Distinct temporal expression of the GW182 paralog TNRC6A in neurons regulates dendritic arborization’, published in JCS. Bharti is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Ravi S. Muddashetty at the Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, investigating mechanisms of translation regulation in neurodevelopment and synaptic plasticity.