First person – Diana Wall

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.