First person – Marjan Abbasi

ABSTRACT 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. Marjan Abbasi is first author on ‘ Phosphosites of the yeast centrosome component Spc110 contribute to cell cycle progression and mitotic exit’, published in BiO. Marjan is a PhD student in the lab of Victoria Menendez-Benito at the Karolinska Institutet, Bionut departement, Stockholm, Sweden, exploring the proteins involved in mitotic spindle regulation.