First person – Priyanka Sarkar

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Priyanka Sarkar is first author on ‘ Glucose to lactate shift reprograms CDK-dependent mitotic decisions and its communication with MAPK Sty1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe’, published in BIO. Priyanka is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Geetanjali Sundaram at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, investigating how metabolic alterations can affect mitotic entry decisions in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.