First person – Miesje van der Stoel

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. Miesje van der Stoel is first author on ‘ DLC1 is a direct target of activated YAP/TAZ that drives collective cell migration and sprouting angiogenesis’, published in JCS. Miesje is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Stephan Huveneers at Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands, where her main research interest is studying how the stiffening of blood vessels can affect vascular integrity and the regulation of endothelial junctions.