First person – Rasha Khaddaj

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. Rasha Khaddaj is first author on ‘ The surface of lipid droplets constitutes a barrier for endoplasmic reticulum-resident integral membrane proteins’, published in JCS. Rasha is a postdoc in the lab of Roger Schneiter at the Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, investigating lipid droplet biogenesis in budding yeast.