First person – Xiao Li

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. Xiao Li is first author on ‘ Cdk8 attenuates lipogenesis by inhibiting SREBP-dependent transcription in Drosophila’, published in DMM. Xiao conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Jun-yuan Ji's lab at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, College Station, TX, USA. He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Levine at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, investigating the mechanisms of transcription regulation.