First person – Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach

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. Agnieszka Pierzynska-Mach is first author on ‘ DEK oncoprotein participates in heterochromatin replication via SUMO-dependent nuclear bodies’, published in JCS. Agnieszka conducted the research described in this article while a researcher in Alberto Diaspro's lab at the Nanoscopy & NIC@IIT, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. She is experienced in cell biophysics and specializes in investigating chromatin structure and DNA-related cellular processes with high-resolution microscopy techniques.