First person – Jiwon Lee

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. Jiwon Lee is first author on ‘ Lipid droplet dynamics are essential for the development of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum’, published in JCS. Jiwon is a PhD student in the lab of Melanie Rug at Centre for Advanced Microscopy/ Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, investigating lipid storing and trafficking mechanisms in various life cycle stages of Plasmodium falciparum.