First person – Toan Le.

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. Toan Le is first author on ‘A ubiquitin–proteasome pathway degrades the inner nuclear membrane protein Bqt4 to maintain nuclear membrane homeostasis’, published in JCS. Toan is a PhD student in the lab of Yasushi Hiraoka at the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan, investigating protein degradation at the inner nuclear membrane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]