First person – Yukako Nishimura

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. Yukako Nishimura is co-first author on 'The formin inhibitor SMIFH2 inhibits members of the myosin superfamily', published in JCS. Yukako conducted the research described in this article while a research fellow in Virgile Viasnoff and Alexander D. Bershadsky's lab at the Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore. She is now an assistant professor in the Division of Developmental Physiology, Institute for Genetic Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, investigating the functions of cytoskeletal networks in mechanobiology.