First person – Shane Kowaleski

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. Shane Kowaleski is first author on ‘ Outer kinetochore proteins form linear elements to regulate vesicle transport’, published in JCS. Shane is a PhD student in the lab of Joshua Bembenek at the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA, investigating how cells reorganize themselves during cell division.