First person – Jonathan Kelebeev and Anastasia MacKeracher

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. Jonathan Kelebeev and Anastasia MacKeracher are co-first authors on ‘ TAZ interactome analysis using nanotrap-based affinity purification–mass spectrometry’, published in JCS. Jonathan conducted the research described in this article while a MSc student at York University in Dr John C. McDermott's lab at York University, Toronto, Canada. He is now a PhD student in the lab of Colin Crist at Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Montreal, Canada, investigating how CTCF functions as an epigenetic regulator to control muscle differentiation in craniofacial and cardiac muscles. Anastasia conducted the research described in this article while a MSc student at York University in Dr John C. McDermott's lab. She is now a PhD student in the lab of Joanna Przybyl Lab McGill University at McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal, Canada, where her research aims to harness liquid biopsy technologies and molecular biology to enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment efficacy in osteosarcoma.