First person – Zhi Feng

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 Feng is first author on ‘Cooperative definition of ER exit sites by Tango1, Sec16 and Sec12’, published in JCS. Zhi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in José Carlos Pastor-Pareja's lab at the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Teresa Nicolson at the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA, investigating sensory mechanisms and hearing function using zebrafish models.