First person – Mia Konjikusic

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. Mia Konjikusic is first author on ‘ Kif9 is an active kinesin motor required for ciliary beating and proximodistal patterning of motile axonemes’, published in JCS. Mia conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in John Wallingford and Ryan Gray's lab at the University of Texas at Austin. She is now a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Jeremy Reiter at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), investigating how cells confer cell-type-specific signaling through the cilium.