First person – Kaitlyn Rutter

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. Kaitlyn Rutter is first author on ‘ Retinopathy-associated inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase 1 mutations cause metabolic and filament defects in cones’, published in DMM. Kaitlyn is a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Professor Susan Brockerhoff at University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, investigating how purines are synthesized in the retina in healthy and diseased states.