First person – Rudolfo Karl

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. Rudolfo Karl is first author on ‘ Renal tissue-resident macrophages promote cystogenesis in early polycystic kidney disease’, published in JCS. Rudolfo is a PhD student in the lab of Dagmar Wachten at the Institute of Innate Immunity, Bonn, Germany, investigating cellular communication between non-immune cells and immune cells like macrophages in the context of polycystic kidney disease.