First person – Izzy Owen

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. Izzy Owen is first author on ‘ The oncogenic transcription factor FUS-CHOP can undergo nuclear liquid–liquid phase separation’, published in JCS. Izzy is a PhD student in the lab of Frank Shewmaker at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, USA, where her research interests involve understanding protein phase separation at the molecular and functional levels in disease.