First person – Diana Ioana Hotea

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. Diana Ioana Hotea is first author on ‘ FGD1 restrains actomyosin contractility to promote suprabasal junction maturation in stratified keratinocytes’, published in JCS. She is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Mélanie Laurin at CHU de Québec - Université Laval Research Center, Québec, Canada, investigating the cell signaling mechanisms behind biological phenomena, with an emphasis on skin development and mechanotransduction.