First person – Emmet Francis

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. Emmet Francis is first author on ‘ Computational modeling establishes mechanotransduction as a potent modulator of the mammalian circadian clock’, published in JCS. Emmet is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Padmini Rangamani at University of California, San Diego, USA, where he develops computational models at the intersection of cell signaling and cell mechanics to discover mechanisms of chemo-mechanical coupling that enable cells to adapt and respond to diverse stimuli.