First person – Neha Khetan

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. Neha Khetan is first author on ‘Self-organized optimal packing of kinesin-5-driven microtubule asters scales with cell size’, published in JCS. Neha is a CEFIPRA postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Chaitanya A. Athale at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, investigating the interplay of self-organization and evolutionary forces in cytoskeletal patterns and collective behaviour.