First person – Tien Comlekoglu

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tien Comlekoglu is first author on ‘ Modeling the roles of cohesotaxis, cell-intercalation, and tissue geometry in collective cell migration of Xenopus mesendoderm’, published in BiO. Tien is a MD/PhD Candidate in the lab of Douglas W. DeSimone and Shayn M. Peirce at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, investigating computational modeling of collective cellular behavior.