First person – Annabel Minard

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Annabel Minard is first author on ‘ Insulated piggyBac and FRT vectors for engineering transgenic homozygous and heterozygous eHAP cells’, published in BiO. Annabel is an assistant research scientist in the lab of Robert Piper at the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA, investigating advancing functional genomics studies through mammalian cell engineering.