First person - Anne Rosfelter.

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. Anne Rosfelter is first author on 'Reduction of cortical pulling at mitotic entry facilitates aster centration', published in JCS. Anne conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Alex McDougall's lab at Laboratoire Biologie du De'veloppement (LBDV), Villefranche-sur-Mer, France. She is now a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Yu-Chiun Wang at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR), Kobe, Japan, investigating the spatial organization of cells and tissue through studying the cytoskeleton. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]