First person – Yeon Ja Choi

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yeon Ja Choi is first author on ‘ Identification of conserved residues essential for the ciliogenic functions of WDPCP’, published in DMM. Yeon Ja conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral associate in Jiang Chen's lab at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. She is now an associate professor at Jeju National University, Jeju, Republic of Korea, investigating the functions of ciliary proteins and their relevance to disease.