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. Cameron MacQuarrie is first author on ‘The S. pombe adaptor protein Bbc1 regulates localization of Wsp1 and Vrp1 during endocytic actin patch assembly’, published in JCS. Cameron is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Vladimir Sirotkin at SUNY Upstate Medical University, NY, USA, investigating regulation and localization of WASp at sites of endocytosis in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe.