Abstract

ABSTRACT First 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. Brittany J. Carr is first author on ‘Distinct roles for prominin-1 and photoreceptor cadherin in outer segment disc morphogenesis in CRISPR-altered X. laevis’, published in JCS. Brittany is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Dr Orson L. Moritz at UBC/VGH Eye Care Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she works as an interdisciplinary scientist who is interested in the cellular and molecular biology of visual disease and disorders; she is particularly interested in myopia (near-sightedness), retinal GPCR signalling and pharmacology, inherited retinal degeneration, and age-related macular degeneration.

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