First person – Nazlı Ezgi Özkan

Abstract

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. Nazlı Ezgi Özkan is first author on ‘ Cell cycle-dependent palmitoylation of protocadherin 7 by ZDHHC5 promotes successful cytokinesis’, published in JCS. Nazlı Ezgi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Nurhan Özlü’s lab at Koc University, Istanbul, Türkiye, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She is now a postdoc in the lab of in the same lab, working on understanding the role of post-translational modifications in cell division using a combination of cell biology and proteomics approaches.