First person – Maria Agustina Battistone

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. Maria Agustina Battistone is first author on ‘Novel role of proton-secreting epithelial cells in sperm maturation and mucosal immunity’,published in JCS. Maria Agustina is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in the lab of Dr Sylvie Breton at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, where she is interested in epithelial function and immune modulation in the male reproductive tract, in order to uncover relevant mechanisms in the pathogenesis of male infertility.