First person – Mingkai Zhu

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. Mingkai Zhu is first author on ‘ Sex hormone receptors, calcium-binding protein and Yap1 signaling regulate sex-dependent liver cell proliferation following partial hepatectomy’, published in DMM. Mingkai conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Dong Liu’s lab at Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China and Dr Zhiyuan Gong's lab at National University of Singapore, Singapore. Mingkai is now a research fellow in the lab of Dr Wolfram Goessling at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, investigating regenerative medicine.