First person – Kévin Adam

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. Kévin Adam is the first author on ‘A PIM-CHK1 signaling pathway regulates PLK1 phosphorylation and function during mitosis’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Kévin conducted the research in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Patrick Mayeux at the Cochin Institute, Paris, France. He is now a Research Associate in Tony Hunter's lab at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA investigating the involvement of non-conventional phosphorylation from the SONAtes phosphate categories in cancer development.