First person – Samantha Payne

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Samantha Payne is first author on ‘ Defined extracellular ionic solutions to study and manipulate the cellular resting membrane potential ’, published in BiO. Samantha is a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Madeleine Oudin at Tufts University, Medford, USA, investigating bioelectric signaling in cancer and regeneration.