First person – Kei Takahashi

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. Kei Takahashi is first author on ‘ Cross-species molecular mapping of the photoreceptor sensory cilium and periciliary structures identifies conserved and species-specific architectural features’, published in JCS. Kei is a postdoc in the lab of William A. Beltran at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, working on advanced microscopy and molecular approaches to investigate the nanoscale architecture of photoreceptors and how this is altered in retinal disease.