First person – Siyang Han

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. Siyang Han is the first author on ‘Substratum stiffness tunes proliferation downstream of Wnt3a in part by regulating integrin-linked kinase and frizzled-1’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Siyang is a graduate student in the lab of Celeste Nelson at Princeton University, USA, investigating how biochemical signals and mechanical cues from the cellular microenvironment integrate to regulate cell proliferation, apoptosis and epithelial–mesenchymal transition.