First person – Destynie Medeiros

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. Destynie Medeiros is first author on ‘ A small-molecule TrkB ligand improves dendritic spine phenotypes and atypical behaviors in female Rett syndrome mice’, published in DMM. Destynie is a PhD student in the lab of Lucas Pozzo-Miller at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, investigating the dendritic spine and social behavior phenotypes in mouse models for Rett syndrome.