First person – Lozan Sheriff and Reenam Kahn

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Lozan Sheriff and Reenam Kahn are co-first authors on ‘Alcoholic hepatitis and metabolic disturbance in female mice: a more tractable model than Nrf2−/− animals’, published in DMM. Lozan is a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Dr Patricia Lalor and Reenam a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Phil Newsome. Both are at the Centre for Liver and Gastrointestinal Research, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, investigating the potential of multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) as a novel therapy for alcoholic steatohepatitis.

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First person – Pratibha Singh

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.046870 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. dmm046870

Keyword(s):

Mouse Model ◽

Harvard Medical School ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

Neonatal Health ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Health And Disease ◽

Postdoctoral Research ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Pratibha Singh is first author on ‘Maltodextrin-induced intestinal injury in a neonatal mouse model’, published in DMM. Pratibha is a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Dr Camilia R. Martin at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, investigating nutrient-driven immunomodulation in neonatal health and disease.

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First person – Andreia Nunes

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049244 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

Keyword(s):

Muscular Dystrophy ◽

Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

School Of Medicine ◽

Disease Mechanisms ◽

The University ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Andreia Nunes is first author on ‘ Identification of candidate miRNA biomarkers for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy using DUX4-based mouse models’, published in DMM. Andreia is a postdoc in the lab of Peter L. Jones at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, Reno, NV, USA, investigating therapeutics for and disease mechanisms of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.

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First person – Katherine Robinson

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049289 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (10) ◽

Keyword(s):

Flow Cytometry ◽

Rapid Detection ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

Transgenic Zebrafish ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Spinocerebellar Ataxia 3 ◽

Selection Of ◽

Sydney Australia

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Katherine Robinson is first author on ‘ Flow cytometry allows rapid detection of protein aggregates in cellular and zebrafish models of spinocerebellar ataxia 3’, published in DMM. Katherine is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Angela Laird at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, using pre-clinical animal models (transgenic zebrafish and mice) to find new therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.

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First person – Gideon Hughes

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.047415 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. dmm047415

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Tissue Regeneration ◽

Model Organism ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Zebrafish Model ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

The University ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Gideon Hughes is first author on ‘Machine learning discriminates a movement disorder in a zebrafish model of Parkinson's disease’, published in DMM. Gideon conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Betsy Pownall's lab at the University of York, York, UK. He is now a postdoc in the lab of Henry Roehl at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, using the zebrafish as a model organism to study human disease and tissue regeneration, combining his research with his interest in computer science.

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First person – Éva Saskői

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.047407 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. dmm047407

Keyword(s):

Caenorhabditis Elegans ◽

Tumor Suppressor ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Éva Saskői is first author on ‘The SDHB Arg230His mutation causing familial paraganglioma alters glycolysis in a new Caenorhabditis elegans model’, published in DMM. Éva is a PhD student in the lab of Krisztina Takács-Vellai at Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, investigating the developmental functions of tumor suppressor homologs in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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First person – Laura Tamberg

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.046532 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. dmm046532

Keyword(s):

Transcription Factor ◽

Drosophila Melanogaster ◽

Molecular Mechanisms ◽

Model System ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

University Of Technology ◽

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ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Laura Tamberg is first author on ‘Daughterless, the Drosophila orthologue of TCF4, is required for associative learning and maintenance of the synaptic proteome’, published in DMM. Laura is a PhD student in the lab of Tõnis Timmusk at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Her research involves investigating the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription factor TCF4-related neuronal diseases.

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First person – Patricia Joyce Brooks

Journal of Cell Science ◽

10.1242/jcs.258004 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 133 (24) ◽

pp. jcs258004

Keyword(s):

Cell Formation ◽

Oral Pathology ◽

Early Career ◽

First Person ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Giant Cell Formation ◽

Postdoctoral Research ◽

Multinucleated Giant Cell Formation ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Patricia Joyce Brooks is first author on ‘CD301 mediates fusion in IL-4-driven multinucleated giant cell formation’, published in JCS. Patricia conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Christopher A. McCulloch and Michael Glogauer's lab at the Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Canada. Patricia is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Scott Bratman at the Princess Margaret Research Institute, Toronto, Canada, where she is bringing clinical oral pathology diagnostic challenges to the benchtop to establish better testing at the basic science level.

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First person – Elia Escasany

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049224 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (9) ◽

Keyword(s):

Lipid Metabolism ◽

Growth Factor ◽

Renal Fibrosis ◽

Transforming Growth Factor ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Elia Escasany is first author on ‘ Transforming growth factor β3 deficiency promotes defective lipid metabolism and fibrosis in murine kidney’, published in DMM. Elia is a PhD student in the lab of Gema Medina-Gómez at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, investigating the role of TGFβ in renal fibrosis.

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First person – Ekaterina Migunova

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (8) ◽

Keyword(s):

Drosophila Melanogaster ◽

Cardiac Hypertrophy ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ekaterina Migunova is first author on ‘ ELAC2/RNaseZ-linked cardiac hypertrophy in Drosophila melanogaster’, published in DMM. Ekaterina is a PhD student in the lab of Edward Dubrovsky at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, USA, investigating the role of ELAC2 mutations in cardiomyopathy.

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First person – Abdulsalam Isiaku

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049180 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (7) ◽

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

Graduate Student ◽

Gene Editing ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Abdulsalam Isiaku is first author on ‘ Transient, flexible gene editing in zebrafish neutrophils and macrophages for determination of cell-autonomous functions’, published in DMM. Abdulsalam is a PhD candidate/graduate student in the lab of Prof. Graham Lieschke at Monash University, Clayton, Australia, investigating the role of phagocytes in inflammatory and infectious diseases.

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