First person – Ignasi Casanellas

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. Ignasi Casanellas is first author on ‘ Substrate adhesion determines migration during mesenchymal cell condensation in chondrogenesis’, published in JCS. Ignasi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Josep Samitier's lab at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. He is now a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Medha Pathak at University of California, Irvine, USA, where he is developing in vitro systems to understand how mechanical environmental inputs guide stem cell functions during tissue formation.