First person – Juri Luis Habicht, Ashley Mooneyham and Asumi Hoshino

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. Juri Luis Habicht, Ashley Mooneyham and Asumi Hoshino are co-first authors ‘UNC-45a breaks the microtubule lattice independently of its effect on non-muscle myosin II’, published in JCS. Juri Luis conducted the research described in this article while a research assistant in the lab of Martina Bazzaro at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is now a medical student in the lab of Prof. Dr Martin Heinze at Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Germany, investigating neuronal functioning and mental health. Ashley conducted the research described in this article while a graduate research assistant and PhD candidate with Martina Bazzaro. She is now a Director of Grants in the lab of Superior Medical Experts at St Paul, MN, USA and works on small business healthcare innovation. Asumi is a full-time researcher in the lab of Martina Bazzaro investigating the molecular basis of drug resistance in cancer.