First person – Setsuya Minami

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. Setsuya Minami is first author on ‘BAG6 contributes to glucose uptake by supporting the cell surface translocation of the glucose transporter GLUT4’, published in BIO. Setsuya is a PhD student in the lab of Hiroyuki Kawahara at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, investigating how proteins cause diseases.