First person – Tadayuki Komori

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. Tadayuki Komori is first author on ‘ Phosphorylation of Rab29 at Ser185 regulates its localization and role in the lysosomal stress response in concert with LRRK2’, published in JCS. Tadayuki conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Takeshi Iwatsubo's lab at University of Tokyo, Japan. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Mitsunori Fukuda at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, investigating Rab GTPases and membrane trafficking in general.