First person – Alexander Kiepas

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. Alexander Kiepas is first author on ‘ Optimizing live-cell fluorescence imaging conditions to minimize phototoxicity’, published in JCS. Alexander is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Claire Brown and Dr Peter Siegel (co-supervised) at McGill University, Québec, Canada, investigating breast cancer metastasis and biophysical imaging tools.