First person - Yang Li and Chelsea Merkel

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. Yang Li and Chelsea Merkel are co-first authors on 'The N-cadherin interactome in primary cardiomyocytes as defined using quantitative proximity proteomics', published in JCS. Yang is a Research Instructor in the lab of Adam Kwiatkowski at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA, investigating cardiomyocyte adhesion complex organization and function. Chelsea is a PhD student in the Kwiatkowski lab, investigating myofibril development and integration at the cardiomyocyte intercalated disc.