First person – Zhi Yang Tan

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. Zhi Yang Tan is first author on ‘ Macromolecular and cytological changes in fission yeast G0 nuclei’, published in JCS. Zhi Yang conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Associate Professor Lu Gan's lab at the Centre for BioImaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Assistant Professor Liu Boxiang at the National University of Singapore, working on the development of treatments for human genetic disorders through understanding their underlying genetics and biological mechanisms.