First person – Ruiqi Wang

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. Ruiqi Wang is first author on ‘Heat resilience in embryonic zebrafish revealed using an in vivo stress granule reporter’, published in JCS. Ruiqi is an assistant technologist in the lab of Jin Xu at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, investigating non-invasive ways to cure neurodegenerative disease, and the relationships among circadian, stress granule and neurodegenerative diseases.