First person – Tamsin Samuels

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Tamsin Samuels is first author on ‘ Neuronal upregulation of Prospero protein is driven by alternative mRNA polyadenylation and Syncrip-mediated mRNA stabilisation’, published in BiO. Tamsin conducted the research described in this article while a DPhil (PhD) student in Professor Ilan Davis's lab at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Dr Felipe Karam Teixeira at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, investigating the regulation of stem cells in their native tissue environment.