First person – Krishanu Bhowmick

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Krishanu Bhowmick is first author on ‘Plasmodium falciparum GCN5 acetyltransferase follows a novel proteolytic processing pathway that is essential for its function’, published in JCS. Krishanu conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Prof. Suman Kumar Dhar's lab at the Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is now a research associate in the lab of Dr Rohini Muthuswami and Prof. Suman Kumar Dhar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, investigating how proteolytic processing of PfGCN5 is essential for its function in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.