First person – Sarah Haßdenteufel

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sarah Haßdenteufel is first author on ‘ The signal peptide plus a cluster of positive charges in prion protein dictate chaperone-mediated Sec61 channel gating’, published in BiO. Sarah conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Prof. Dr Richard Zimmermann's lab at Saarland University, Germany. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr Sven Lang at Saarland University, investigating protein transport into the human endoplasmic reticulum.