First person – Jon Bell

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. Jon Bell is first author on ‘ foxg1a is required for hair cell development and regeneration in the zebrafish lateral line’, published in BiO. Jon is a research assistant in the lab of Hillary McGraw at University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas, USA, investigating the regulatory mechanisms that direct cellular migration and differentiation during development.