First person – Eli Matsell

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. Eli Matsell is first author on ‘ Functional and in silico analysis of ATP8A2 and other P4-ATPase variants associated with human genetic diseases’, published in DMM. Eli is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Robert Molday at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, investigating the role that the P4-ATPase ATP8A2 plays in severe neurological disease.