First person – Haoting Wang and Hiroko Kobayashi

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. Haoting Wang and Hiroko Kobayashi are co-first authors on ‘ MYCBPAP is a central apparatus protein required for centrosome–nuclear envelope docking and sperm tail biogenesis in mice’, published in JCS. Haoting conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate student in Masahito Ikawa's lab at Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Japan; he is now a PhD student in the same lab working on cell biology. Hiroko is a PhD student in the lab of Masatoshi Hagiwara at Drug Discovery Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, investigating cell biology, especially RNA biology, cancer immunology and genome editing.