First person – Katie Barnes

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. Katie Barnes is first author on ‘ Isolation, validation, and long-term culture of mouse ear fibroblasts’, published in BiO. Katie is a PhD graduate student researcher in the lab of Laura Knoll at University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA, investigating novel and efficient model systems for research of intracellular microbes.