First person – Kaisa Pakari

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. Kaisa Pakari is first author on ‘ Establishing an auxin-inducible GFP nanobody-based acute protein knockdown system to mimic hypomorphic mutations during early medaka embryogenesis’, published in BiO. Kaisa is a postdoc in the lab of Thomas Thumberger at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg, Germany, investigating glycosylation disorders using medaka fish as a model system.