Abstract
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Arindam Ray and Yashashwinee Rai are co-first author on ‘ The Endosomal Sorting Complex, ESCRT, has diverse roles in blood progenitor maintenance, lineage choice and immune response’, published in BiO. Arindam conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Dr Maneesha S. Inamdar's lab at Molecular Biology and Genetics Unit, JNCASR, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Yashashwinee is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Inamdar investigating the role of organellar machinery in stem cell maintenance and functional heterogeneity.