First person – Ankit Ghosh and Aastha Varshney

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. Ankit Ghosh and Aastha Varshney are co-first authors on ‘ The novel Plasmodium berghei protein S14 is essential for sporozoite gliding motility and infectivity’, published in JCS. Ankit and Aastha performed this work while PhD students in the lab of Dr Satish Mishra at the CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India. They work on elucidating the role of sporozoite-specific proteins in Plasmodium berghei using reverse genetic approaches.