First person - Shalini Umachandran

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. Shalini Umachandran is first author on 'A PKC that controls polyphosphate levels, pinocytosis and exocytosis, regulates stationary phase onset in Dictyostelium', published in JCS. Shalini is a PhD student in the lab of Ramamurthy Baskar at Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Mehta School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India, investigating the role of PKC in delaying stationary phase onset in Dictyostelium.