First person – Mai Nguyen

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. Mai Nguyen is first author on ‘ Cytoneme-like protrusion formation induced by LAR is promoted by receptor dimerization’, published in BiO. Mai conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Makoto Sato's lab at Osaka University, Japan. She is now a researcher] at Meiji Co., Ltd., Tokyo, investigating the formation of membrane protrusions in cellular communication.