First person

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jacob Odell is first author on 'N-terminal tags impair the ability of lamin A to provide structural support to the nucleus', published in JCS. Jacob is a PhD student in the lab of Jan Lammerding at Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA, investigating how cells sense, resist and respond to mechanical forces, with a focus on nuclear lamin proteins.