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Explore how genetic mutations impact cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease.

June 4, 2026Open Access

First person – Diana Wall

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Explore how genetic mutations impact cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease.
Interview with Diana Wall, the first author of a featured paper.
Discussion on research conducted at Brown University.
Focus on Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism.
Identification of dominant neuromuscular junction defects in C. elegans models.
Insight into disease mechanisms related to childhood hemiplegia.

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. Diana Wall is first author on ‘ Caenorhabditis elegans models of alternating hemiplegia of childhood have dominant neuromuscular junction defects’, published in DMM. Diana is a PhD candidate in the lab of Anne Hart at Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, investigating how genetic mutations cause disease on a cellular and molecular level.

First person – Diana Wall

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