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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. Maria Sharkova is first author on 'Photoreceptor calyceal processes accompany the developing outer segment, adopting a stable length despite a dynamic core', published in JCS. Maria is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Jennifer Hocking at the Department of Cell Biology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, investigating the role of microvilli surrounding the sensory ending of vertebrate photoreceptors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]