First person – Robert Van Sciver

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Robert Van Sciver is first author on ‘ A prioritization tool for cilia-associated genes and their in vivo resources unveils new avenues for ciliopathy research’, published in DMM. Robert is a postdoc in the lab of Tamara Caspary at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA, investigating primary cilia biology, in particular the ciliary mechanisms that drive kidney cyst formation.