First person – Mélody Wintrebert

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. Mélody Wintrebert is joint first author on ‘Activation of meiotic recombination by nuclear import of the DNA break hotspot-determining complex in fission yeast’, published in JCS. Mélody conducted the research described in this article while a Master’s student in Gerry Smith's lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA. She is now a PhD student in the labs of Frédéric Relaix and Laurent Tiret at Institut Mondor de Recherche Biomédicale, Créteil, and Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, Maisons Alfort, France, investigating cellular and molecular biology.