First person – Yuta Koui

Abstract

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Yuta Koui is first author on ‘ Hepatic leukemia factor-expressing paraxial mesoderm cells contribute to the developing brain vasculature’, published in BiO. Yuta is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Yoh-suke Mukouyama at the Laboratory of Stem Cell and Neuro-Vascular Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology Center, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA, investigating cellular origin of brain vascular cells developing CNS-specific unique vascular structure such as blood brain barrier.