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.