First person – Kodzo Atchou and Bianca Manuela Berger

Abstract

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. Kodzo Atchou and Bianca Manuela Berger are co-first authors on ‘ Pre-gelation staining expansion microscopy for visualisation of the Plasmodium liver stage’, published in JCS. Kodzo is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr Volker Heussler at the Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, where he is interested in molecular biology and parasitology with a focus on host–pathogen interaction for the Plasmodium liver stage. Bianca is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr Torsten Ochsenreiter also at the Institute of Cell Biology, University of Bern, where she has a broad interest in molecular biology and parasitology; during her PhD she investigated mitochondrial gene expression in Trypanosoma brucei.