First person – Agnieszka Bauer and Julia Cecilia Madela

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. Agnieszka Bauer and Julia Cecilia Madela are first authors on ‘Rat cytomegalovirus-encoded γ-chemokine vXCL1 is a highly adapted, species-specific agonist for rat XCR1-positive dendritic cells’, published in JCS. Agnieszka is a postdoc, and Julia a Research Associate in the lab of Sebastian Voigt at Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany, where they investigate host–pathogen interaction and viral immune evasion.