First person – Kazuki Omata

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. Kazuki Omata is first author on ‘ Isolation and evaluation of erythroid progenitors in the livers of larval, froglet, and adult Xenopus tropicalis’, published in BiO. Kazuki is a PhD student in the lab of Takashi Kato at Waseda University, Japan, investigating the difference in the function and production mechanisms between mammalian enucleated erythrocytes and non-mammalian nucleated erythrocytes.