First person – Sudipta Bar

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sudipta Bar is first author on ‘ Neuromuscular degeneration and locomotor deficit in a Drosophila model of mucopolysaccharidosis VII is attenuated by treatment with resveratrol ’, published in DMM. Sudipta conducted the research described in this article while studying a PhD in Dr Rupak Datta's lab at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Nadia, India. He is now a Post Doc in the lab of Prof. Pankaj Kapahi at Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, USA, investigating the molecular basis of neurodegeneration and how neurodegeneration affects memory.