First person – Tabea Soelter and Emma Jones

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. Tabea Soelter and Emma Jones are co-first authors on ‘ Cell-type-specific alternative splicing in the brain and kidney of a Setbp1S858R Schinzel–Giedion syndrome mouse’, published in DMM. Tabea is a computational biologist in the lab of Brittany Lasseigne at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA, using transcriptomics and bioinformatics to uncover the mechanisms underlying age-associated diseases, specifically those with a neurodegenerative phenotype. Emma conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Brittany Lasseigne's lab at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Joseph Dougherty at Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, MO, USA, using transcriptomics to understand the mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders.