First person – Yoshiaki Kitsu

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. Yoshiaki Kitsu is first author on ‘ microRNA-guided immunity against respiratory virus infection in mammalian lung cells’, published in BiO. Yoshiaki is a Prospective Graduate Student in the lab of Tomoko Takahashi at Saitama University, investigating antiviral defense systems regulated by non-coding RNAs in mammalian cells.