First person – Amy Bongetti

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. Amy Bongetti is first author on ‘ Evaluating skeletal muscle dysfunction and recovery in a zymosan model of critical illness in mice’, published in DMM. Amy is an associate research fellow in the lab of Professor Gordon Lynch at The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, investigating skeletal muscle wasting and weakness in critically ill patients, particularly in the refinement of animal models to improve mechanistic understanding of this condition and the translation of therapeutics from bench to bedside.