First person – Ana Loncar

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. Ana Loncar is first author on ‘Kinesin-14 family proteins and microtubule dynamics define S. pombe mitotic and meiotic spindle assembly, and elongation’, published in JCS. Ana is a PhD student in the lab of Phong Tran at Institut Curie, Paris, France, investigating spindle assembly dynamics and chromosome segregation.