First person – Nicola De Franceschi

ABSTRACT

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. Nicola De Franceschi is co-first author on ‘ ProLIF – quantitative integrin protein–protein interactions and synergistic membrane effects on proteoliposomes’ and first author on ‘ The ESCRT protein CHMP2B acts as a diffusion barrier on reconstituted membrane necks’, companion papers published in the ‘Reconstituting Cell Biology’ special issue in Journal of Cell Science. Nicola conducted the research in the first of these articles while a PhD student in the lab of Johanna Ivaska at Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Turku, Finland. He is now a postdoctoral fellow, and conducted the research in the second article, in Patricia Bassereau's lab at Institut Curie, Paris, France, where his research focuses on in vitro reconstitution of ESCRT-III machinery.