First person – Sepideh Cheheltani

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. Sepideh Cheheltani is first author on ‘ Loss of cyclase-associated protein 2 alters actin cytoskeleton organization and biomechanical properties of the ocular lens’, published in JCS. Sepideh is a PhD candidate in the lab of Velia Fowler at University of Delaware, USA, investigating how actin-binding proteins regulate cytoskeletal architecture and biomechanical properties in specialized non-muscle tissues, using the ocular lens as a model system.