First person – Shengnan Zheng

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. Shengnan Zheng is first author on ‘ The Cdc42 GTPase-activating protein Rga6 promotes the cortical localization of septin’, published in JCS. Shengnan is a PhD student in the lab of Chuanhai Fu at University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, investigating how septin and microtubule cytoskeletons regulate cell septation and cell polarity.