First person – Pearl Ryder

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. Pearl Ryder is first author on ‘Quantitative analysis of subcellular distributions with an open-source, object-based tool’, published in BiO. Pearl conducted the research described in this article while a NIH-NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Dorothy Lerit's lab at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in Bioimage Analysis in the lab of Anne Carpenter at The Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA, investigating Extracting data and insights from biological images.