First person - Conor Herlihy.

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Conor Herlihy is first author on 'Suv420 enrichment at the centromere limits Aurora B localization and function', published in JCS. Conor is a Postdoc in the lab of Dr Ting Wu at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, where he is interested in understanding how the genome organizes and regulates itself in order to enable normal development and prevent the onset of diseases such as cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]