First person – Harshath Amal

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. Harshath Amal is first author on ‘ TGF-β signaling modulates adhesion and actomyosin contractility to pattern epithelial permeability in Drosophila ovaries’, published in JCS. Harshath is a PhD student in the lab of Stefan Luschnig at the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Münster, Germany, where his research focuses on understanding how signaling patterns epithelial barrier function during development.