First person – Khatija Nishat

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Khatija Nishat is first author on ‘ IFT139 regulates Hedgehog signaling and cilia structure through ciliary protein localization’, published in BiO. Khatija is a post-undergraduate in the lab of Dr Yulu Cherry Liu at Hood College, Frederick, USA, investigating how primary cilia and intraflagellar transport proteins regulate cell signalling and development, with implications for ciliopathy-related diseases.