First person – Ashley Peterson

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. Ashley Peterson is first author on ‘ Neutrophil motility is regulated by both cell intrinsic and endothelial cell ARPC1B’, published in JCS. Ashley conducted the research described in this article while a graduate research assistant (PhD student) in Anna Huttenlocher's lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is currently searching for jobs in pharmaceutical/biotech industry. Her research interests are in using in vitro and microfluidics systems to model human disease for drug discovery and preclinical testing.