First person – Emma Lacroix

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. Emma Lacroix is first author on ‘Evolutionary conservation of systemic and reversible amyloid aggregation’, published in JCS. Emma is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Tim Audas at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, investigating stress-induced physiological amyloid aggregation.