First person – Kumiko Samejima and Daniel Booth

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Kumiko Samejima and Daniel Booth are co-first authors on ‘Functional analysis after rapid degradation of condensins and 3D-EM reveals chromatin volume is uncoupled from chromosome architecture in mitosis’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Kumiko is a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of William C. Earnshaw at the University of Edinburgh, UK, investigating the mechanism of mitotic chromosome assembly and segregation. Daniel is a senior post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dies Meijer at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and combines basic cell biology with translational medicine to explore the contribution of cell division errors to disease states.