First person – Stephen Wellard

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. Stephen Wellard is first author on ‘Aurora B and C kinases regulate chromosome desynapsis and segregation during mouse and human spermatogenesis’, published in JCS. Stephen is a PhD student in the lab of Philip W. Jordan at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, investigating the regulation of accurate chromosome segregation during mammalian meiosis.