First person – Anja Schmidt and Long Li

Abstract

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. Anja Schmidt and Long Li are co-first authors on ‘ Dia- and Rok-dependent enrichment of capping proteins in a cortical region’, published in JCS. Anja conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Jörg Großhans's lab at Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Mark Peifer at Chapel Hill, NC, USA, investigating cell–cell interactions, mechanotransduction and cell–cell junction dynamics. Long is a postdoc in the lab of Jörg Großhans at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, where he focuses on the regulation and interaction between microtubule and actin interaction.