First person -- Ajay Singh.

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping earlycareer researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ajay Singh is first author on ' Local DNA synthesis is critical for DNA repair during oocyte maturation', published in JCS. Ajay is a postdoc in the lab of Dr H. B. D. Prasada Rao at the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology, Hyderabad, India, investigating the quality of and lifespan-determining factors of mature oocytes in mammals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]