First person – Federica Giannini

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. Federica Giannini is co-first author on ‘ The prophase oocyte nucleus is a homeostatic G-actin buffer’, published in JCS. Federica is a PhD student in the lab of Binyam Mogessie at the School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, UK, investigating the molecular mechanisms of how healthy mammalian eggs are formed.