First person – Nannan Gao

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Nannan Gao is first author on ‘ Respiratory syncytial virus disrupts the airway epithelial barrier by decreasing cortactin and destabilizing F-actin’, published in JCS. Nannan is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Fariba Rezaee, at the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, investigating the impact of respiratory viral infection and environmental factors on airway epithelial barrier.