First person – Tetsuo Mioka

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. Tetsuo Mioka is first author on ‘ Characterization of micron-scale protein-depleted plasma membrane domains in phosphatidylserine-deficient yeast cells’, published in JCS. Tetsuo is an assistant professor in the lab of Kazuma Tanaka at the Division of Molecular Interaction Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido, Japan, where he is involved in characterization of a novel plasma membrane domain generated in PtdSer-deficient budding yeast cells.