First person – Mana Masui

ABSTRACT 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. Mana Masui is first author on ‘ Allorecognition behaviors in Myxomycetes respond to intraspecies factors’, published in BiO. Mana is a Masters’ Student in the lab of Dr Nobuaki Kono at Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan, investigating the mechanisms and significance of self- non-self-recognition in slime molds (Myxomycetes). Ultimately aiming to explore the evolution of the concept of ‘self’ in organisms.