First person – Ahmed Abdelbaki Abdelaal and H. Begum Akman

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. Ahmed Abdelbaki Abdelaal and H. Begum Akman are co-first authors on ‘AURKA destruction is decoupled from its activity at mitotic exit but is essential to suppress interphase activity’, published in JCS. Ahmed is a PhD student, and Begum a Research Associate, in the lab of Catherine Lindon at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK, where they are investigating the contribution of ubiquitin-mediated signaling to the outcomes of cell division.