First person – Marta Grifell-Junyent

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. Marta Grifell-Junyent is first author on ‘ CDC50A is required for aminophospholipid transport and cell fusion in mouse C2C12 myoblasts’, published in JCS. Marta conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Prof. Dr Thomas Günther Pomorski's lab at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Tim Cash (CSO) at Senolytic Therapeutics, Barcelona, Spain, a longevity start-up, where she is doing research on senolytic drugs to remove senescent cells involved in age-related diseases.