First person – Kelsey Prince and Samantha Bunner

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. Kelsey Prince and Samantha Bunner are co-first authors on ‘ Decreased DNA density is a better indicator of a nuclear bleb than lamin B loss’, published in JCS. Kelsey is a Master student and lab manager in the lab of Dr Andrew Stephens at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, investigating abnormal nuclear morphology related to transcription and coherent chromatin motion. Samantha completed this work while a lab manager in the same laboratory, and now is a postbaccalaureate researcher in the lab of Dr Pedro Rocha at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, USA, where she investigates the role chromatin organization and epigenetic mechanisms have in disease.