First person – Hung-Ju Chiang

Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Hung-Ju Chiang is first author on ‘ Male germ cell-associated kinase is required for axoneme formation during ciliogenesis in zebrafish photoreceptors’, published in DMM. Hung-Ju is a Junior Research Fellow in the lab of Ichiro Masai at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan, investigating the importance of cilia, a largely underappreciated organelle.