First person – Thibault Legal

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. Thibault Legal is first author on ‘The C-terminal helix of BubR1 is essential for CENP-E-dependent chromosome alignment’, published in JCS. Thibault is a PhD student in the lab of Julie Welburn at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, investigating kinetochore–microtubule attachment in mitosis.