First person – Lídia Faria

Abstract

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Lídia Faria is first author on ‘ Activation of an actin signalling pathway in pre-malignant mammary epithelial cells by P-cadherin is essential for transformation’, published in DMM. Lídia is a PhD student in the lab of Florence Janody at Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, investigating how pre-malignant cells acquire characteristics of tumour cells.