First person – Thomas Blake

Abstract

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. Thomas Blake is first author on ‘ Filopodial protrusion driven by density-dependent Ena–TOCA-1 interactions’, published in JCS. Thomas is a Research Associate in the lab of Jennifer Gallop at the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, Cambridge, UK, investigating the molecular mechanisms that drive cell motility using quantitative microscopy techniques.