First person - Jessica Kehrer

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jessica Kehrer is first author on 'Clearing of hemozoin crystals in malaria parasites enables whole-cell STED microscopy', published in JCS. Jessica is a PhD student in the lab of Friedrich Frischknecht at Heidelberg University Medical School, Germany, investigating malaria parasites using different microscopy and cell biology methods.