First person – Caroline König

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. Caroline König is first author on ‘ Vps41 functions as a molecular ruler for HOPS tethering complex-mediated membrane fusion’, published in JCS. Caroline is a postdoc in the lab of Christian Ungermann at Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany, working on understanding endosomal tethers in yeast using a combination of structural analysis and in vitro experiments.