First person – Kotoku Kawaguchi

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Kotoku Kawaguchi is first author on ‘ Ezrin knockdown reduces procaterol-stimulated ciliary beating without morphological changes in mouse airway cilia’, published in JCS. Kotoku is an assistant professor in the lab of Shinji Asano at Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Japan, investigating the role of ezrin in ciliary beating and mucociliary clearance.