First person – Amit Sharma

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. Amit Sharma is first author on ‘Transgelin-2 and phosphoregulation of the LIC2 subunit of dynein govern mitotic spindle orientation’, published in JCS. Amit conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Sivaram V. S. Mylavarapu's lab at the Regional Centre for Biotechnology, NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Haryana, India. He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Laurence Pelletier at the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research institute, Toronto, Canada, where his area of interest is cell division and cancer.