First person – Lorena Maili

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. Lorena Maili is first author on ‘ Facial analytics based on a coordinate extrapolation system (zFACE) for morphometric phenotyping of developing zebrafish’, published in DMM. Lorena conduced the research described in the article while a graduate research assistant (predoctoral student) in the lab of Dr Jacqueline Hecht (in collaboration with Dr George Eisenhoffer) at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Paul Trainor at Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO, USA, investigating genetic regulation of craniofacial development.