First person – Jessica Kabutomori

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jessica Kabutomori is first author on ‘ Water transport mediated by murine urea transporters: implications for urine concentration mechanisms ’, published in BIO. Jessica is a masters student in the lab of Raif Musa Aziz at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of São Paulo, investigating water transport across murine urea transporters UT-A2, UT-A3 and UT-B, towards the goal of better understanding the role(s) of these proteins in the kidney.