First person – Xiang Wan (万向)

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. Xiang Wan (万向) is first author on ‘ Identification of locally activated spindle-associated proteins in oocytes uncovers a phosphatase-driven mechanism’, published in JCS. Xiang (向) is a postdoc in the lab of Hiroyuki Ohkura at Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, UK, investigating how chromosomes are correctly segregated during cell division.