First person – Lena Menzel

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. Lena Menzel is first author on ‘ An ARVC-5 Drosophila knock-in model reveals new functions of Tmem43 in lipid homeostasis’, published in BiO. Lena is a PhD student in the lab of Achim Paululat at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, investigating ways to utilise our Drosophila model to translate our findings to humans, which may ultimately help real-world patients.