First person – Matt Johansen

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. Matt Johansen is first author on ‘ Mycobacteriophage–antibiotic therapy promotes enhanced clearance of drug-resistant Mycobacterium abscessus’, published in DMM. Matt completed the research described in this article while a postdoc in the lab of Laurent Kremer at Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France, and is now a postdoc in the lab of Phil Hansbro at the Centre for Inflammation, Centenary Institute and University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, investigating the disease pathogenesis of infectious organisms and deciphering host–pathogen interactions.

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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 ◽

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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 – 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 – 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 ◽

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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 – 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 – 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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First person – Blake Smith

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.049122 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (6) ◽

Keyword(s):

Mouse Model ◽

Mouse Models ◽

Epidermolysis Bullosa ◽

Point Mutations ◽

Early Career ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa ◽

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. Blake Smith is first author on ‘Mouse models for dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa carrying common human point mutations recapitulate the human disease’, published in DMM. Blake is a PhD student in the lab of Ken Pang at Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Australia, currently investigating the rare genetic skin disease epidermolysis bullosa utilising a novel mouse model.

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First person – Anjali Bajpai

Disease Models & Mechanisms ◽

10.1242/dmm.046136 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. dmm046136

Keyword(s):

Model System ◽

Indian Institute ◽

Early Career ◽

Intestinal Stem Cell ◽

Disease Models ◽

First Person ◽

Early Career Researchers ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

Developmental Principles ◽

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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. Anjali Bajpai is first author on ‘A Drosophila model of oral peptide therapeutics for adult intestinal stem cell tumors’, published in DMM. Anjali is a Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance early-career fellow in the lab of Prof. Pradip Sinha at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, investigating the developmental principles that govern carcinogenesis using Drosophila as a model system.

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