First person – Brittany Seman

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. Brittany Seman is first author on ‘Neonatal low-density granulocytes internalize and kill bacteria but suppress monocyte function using extracellular DNA’, published in JCS. Brittany is a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology in the lab of Dr Cory M. Robinson at West Virginia School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV, investigating host–pathogen interactions in the context of infectious diseases.