First person – Aimee Uyehara

ABSTRACT 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. Aimee Uyehara is first author on ‘ De novo TANGLED1 recruitment from the phragmoplast to aberrant cell plate fusion sites in maize’, published in JCS. Aimee is a PhD Student in the lab of Dr Carolyn Rasmussen at Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA, investigating how plant cells regulate the placement and completion of their divisions.