First person -- Joseph A. Brazzo III.

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. Joseph A. Brazzo III is first author on ' Mechanosensitive expression of lamellipodin promotes intracellular stiffness, cyclin expression and cell proliferation', published in JCS. Joseph is an MD--PhD student in the lab of Yongho Bae at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York University at Buffalo, NY, USA, investigating how extracellular matrix stiffness affects cell functions and behaviors, and dissecting the cellular pathways and molecular mechanisms that mediate mechanotransduction in health and disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]