First person – Ling Jin

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. Ling Jin is first author on ‘ An acentrosomal aster with atypical microtubule polarity recruits cytokinesis signals to its center in Xenopus egg extracts’, published in JCS. Ling is a PhD student in the lab of Xianrui Cheng at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, investigating the dynamics and transformations of living systems, with a particular interest in using striking models and unconventional perspectives to address broad biological questions and develop innovative methods with wide applicability.