First person – Artem Fokin

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. Artem Fokin is first author on ‘Inactivating negative regulators of cortical branched actin enhances persistence of single cell migration’, published in JCS. Artem conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in the lab of Alexis Gautreau at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. His research focuses on investigating the cytoskeleton and everything that moves, both at the intracellular level (vesicular traffic) and at the level of individual cells and cell layers.