First person – Jaya Kumari

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. Jaya Kumari is first author on ‘ Developmental expression patterns of toolkit genes in male accessory gland of Drosophila parallels those of mammalian prostate’, published in BiO. Jaya conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Pradip Sinha's lab at the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India. Jaya is currently an early-career postdoc in the lab of Pradip Sinha, investigating development and carcinogenesis in Drosophila organs with squamous epithelial cells.