First person – Xuemeng Shi

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. Xuemeng Shi is first author on ‘WIP-1 and DBN-1 promote scission of endocytic vesicles by bridging actin and Dynamin-1 in the C. elegans intestine’, published in JCS. Xuemeng is a PhD student in the lab of Rongying Zhang at the Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei, China, investigating intracellular transport along the endocytic pathway.