First person – Sonal

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. Sonal is the first author on ‘Myosin-II activity generates a dynamic steady state with continuous actin turnover in a minimal actin cortex’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Sonal conducted the research in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Petra Schwille at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany, studying biological pattern formation using a bottom-up reconstitution approach.