First person – Teresa Vitali

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. Teresa Vitali is first author on ‘ Vimentin intermediate filaments provide structural stability to the mammalian Golgi complex’, published in JCS. Teresa undertook the work while a Research Associate in the lab of Martin Lowe at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Teresa has since spent time as a Senior Research Assistant in the lab of Dr Inhee Chung at George Washington University, Washington, USA and will soon be starting a new role at Washington University Saint Louis, USA. She is interested in cytoskeletal organization and function in diverse cellular processes (at the molecular and cellular level), and in pathological contexts like cancer and infection.