First person - Joanna Wenda

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. Joanna Wenda is first author on 'Mitotic chromosome condensation requires phosphorylation of the centromeric protein KNL-2 in C. elegans', published in JCS. Joanna is a PhD student (in the process of graduating) in the lab of Florian Steiner at Department of Molecular Biology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, investigating chromatin and cell biology, specifically centromere maintenance and mitotic chromosome formation.