First person – Amy Findlay

doi:10.1242/dmm.038265

Abstract

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. Amy Findlay is first author on ‘Mouse Idh3a mutations cause retinal degeneration and reduced mitochondrial function’, published in DMM. Amy is a postdoc in the lab of Ian Jackson at MRC Human Genetics Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. The focus of her research is using mouse models of human disease to investigate the genetic causes of retinal degeneration.

Highlights

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
The focus of her research is using mouse models of human disease to investigate the genetic causes of retinal degeneration
“We have shown that a mitochondrial defect present in all cells has a detrimental effect only on photoreceptor cells.”

Summary

Introduction

“We have shown that a mitochondrial defect present in all cells has a detrimental effect only on photoreceptor cells.”. 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. Amy Findlay is first author on ‘Mouse Idh3a mutations cause retinal degeneration and reduced mitochondrial function’, published in DMM.

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