First person – Sean Gombart

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sean Gombart is first author on ‘ Inhibition of Hedgehog signaling does not mitigate polycystic kidney disease severity in a Pkd1 mutant mouse model’, published in JCS. Sean is a Research Technician in the lab of David Beier at Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children's Research Institute, USA, where he uses genetic analysis techniques on model systems to better understand biological phenomena and disease.