First person – Oluwaseun Akinyele

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. Oluwaseun Akinyele is first author on ‘ Impaired polyamine metabolism causes behavioral and neuroanatomical defects in a mouse model of Snyder–Robinson syndrome’, published in DMM. Oluwaseun is a postdoc in the lab of Dwi U. Kemaladewi at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, investigating how polyamine perturbation causes a range of human diseases, from breast cancer to rare neurological disorders, such as Snyder–Robinson syndrome.