First person – Anchi Chann

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Anchi Chann is first author on ‘ Scribble and E-cadherin cooperate to control symmetric daughter cell positioning by multiple mechanisms’, published in JCS. Anchi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Sarah Russell's lab at Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. He is now a Research Fellow in the lab of Fotini Gounari at the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, USA, investigating fate-determining mechanisms in development and disease.