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ABSTRACT 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. Frances Tilley is the first author on ‘Retromer associates with the cytoplasmic amino-terminus of polycystin-2’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Frances conducted the work in this article while a PhD student in the lab of Peter Cullen at the University of Bristol, UK, but is now a postdoc in Corinne Antignac's lab at Imagine Institute, Paris, France, investigating the mechanisms of pathogenesis in Galloway–Mowat syndrome, with a focus on the role of podocytes on disease progression.