First person – Lily Schumacher

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. Lily Schumacher is first author on ‘ Arabidopsis KASH domains are differentially required for distinct LINC complex roles in stomata, roots and pollen’, published in JCS. Lily is a Biophysics PhD student in the lab of Iris Meier and Daniel Conway at The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, investigating the hidden interplay of biophysical forces within plant cellular biology.