First person – Shannon McMahon

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors selection papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shannon McMahon author on ‘DNAJB chaperones suppress destabilised protein aggregation via region distinct from that used to inhibit amyloidogenesis’, JCS. PhD student lab Heath Ecroyd at Molecular Horizons and Illawarra Health Medical Research Institute, University Wollongong, NSW, Australia, investigating whether intrinsic proteostasis machinery can be manipulated combat neurodegenerative diseases.