First person – Maika S. Deffieu

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. Maika S. Deffieu is first author on ‘ The Toxoplasma dense granule protein TgGRA3 interacts with host Golgi and dysregulates anterograde transport ’, published in BIO. Maika conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in Stanislas Tomavo's lab at Pasteur Institute, Lille, France. She is now a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Raphael Gaudin at IRIM CNRS, Montpellier, France, investigating intracellular trafficking and particularly how micro-organisms divert the host trafficking pathways to survive.