# First person – Hung-Ju Chiang

## TL;DR

Hung-Ju Chiang discusses his research on the role of a specific kinase in cilia formation in zebrafish photoreceptors.

## Contribution

The study identifies a new requirement for Male germ cell-associated kinase in axoneme formation during ciliogenesis.

## Key findings

- Male germ cell-associated kinase is essential for axoneme formation in zebrafish photoreceptors.
- The research highlights the importance of cilia in photoreceptor development.

## Abstract

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. Hung-Ju Chiang is first author on ‘
Male germ cell-associated kinase is required for axoneme formation during ciliogenesis in zebrafish photoreceptors’, published in DMM. Hung-Ju is a Junior Research Fellow in the lab of Ichiro Masai at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan, investigating the importance of cilia, a largely underappreciated organelle.