First person – Shweta Santra

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. Shweta Santra is first author on ‘ Estimates of differential toxin expression governing heterogeneous intracellular lifespans of Streptococcus pneumoniae’, published in JCS. Shweta is a PhD student in the lab of Anirban Banerjee at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, working on decoding host–pathogen interactions and understanding cellular processes.