First person – Jennifer Hewitt

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jennifer Hewitt is first author on ‘Muscle strength deficiency and mitochondrial dysfunctio...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2018-12-01
Series:Disease Models & Mechanisms
Online Access:http://dmm.biologists.org/content/11/12/dmm038091
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Summary:First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Jennifer Hewitt is first author on ‘Muscle strength deficiency and mitochondrial dysfunction in a muscular dystrophy model of Caenorhabditis elegans and its functional response to drugs’, published in DMM. Jennifer is a PhD student in the lab of Siva Vanapalli at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA, investigating using C. elegans as a model for studying the mechanisms of and interventions for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
ISSN:1754-8403
1754-8411