First person – Nina Short and Max Butler

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. Nina Short and Max Butler are co-first authors on ‘Rho kinase-dependent apical constriction counteracts M-phase apical expansion to enable mouse neural tube closure’, published in JCS. Nina is a Molecular and Cellular Bioscience MRes student at Imperial College London, UK, where she studies developmental biology and immunology. Max is a medical student at The University of Cambridge, UK, where his primary research interests are developmental biology and medical imaging.