First person – Hiroshi Otani

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. Hiroshi Otani is first author on ‘ Excess microtubule and F-actin formation mediates shortening and loss of primary cilia in response to a hyperosmotic milieu’, published in JCS. Hiroshi conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Koji Ikegami's lab at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is currently an undergraduate medical student at the same university. His interest lies with revealing details of cellular organelles though microscopy.