First person – Marielle Saclier

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. Marielle Saclier is first author on ‘ Interplay between myofibers and pro-inflammatory macrophages controls muscle damage in mdx mice’, published in JCS. Marielle conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Bénédicte Chazaud's lab at the Institut Cochin, Paris, France. She subsequently joined the lab of Graziella Messina at the University of Milan, Italy, as a postdoc to investigate the interaction of macrophages with the cellular environment during muscle regeneration, both as a model of sterile inflammation and in the context of diseases such as muscular dystrophy.