First person – Julie Frion

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. Julie Frion is first author on ‘ CRISPR/Cas9-mediated knockout of the ubiquitin variant UbKEKS reveals a role in regulating nucleolar structures and composition’, published in BiO. Julie is a PhD Student in the lab of Professor François-Michel Boisvert at PRAC-Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, studying a new protein encoded by what was previously thought to be a pseudogene.