First person – Emma Burns and Anastasia Amoiroglou

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. Emma Burns and Anastasia Amoiroglou are co-first authors on ‘ Visualizing Drosophila centrioles by expansion microscopy’, published in JCS. Emma is a post-baccalaureate researcher in the lab of Nasser Rusan at Cell and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, USA, investigating morphogenesis and how unique cells like spermatids get their shape. Anastasia is a postdoc in the lab of Gregory Rogers at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, USA, investigating centriole assembly and structure, chromosomal instability and cancer.