First person – Kazuki Ueda

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. Kazuki Ueda is a joint first author on ‘ Recruitment of Peroxin 14 to lipid droplets affects lipid storage in Drosophila’, published in JCS. Kazuki is a MSc student in the lab of Andrew Simmonds at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, investigating peroxisome-independent roles of Pex proteins in regulating lipid metabolism.