First person – Monika J. Tomecka

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. Monika Tomecka is first author on ‘ Clinical pathologies of bone fracture modelled in zebrafish ’, published in DMM. Monika conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Tom Carney's lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore and Henry Roehl's lab, Department of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield, UK. She is now a CEO at uFraction8, an engineering company that develops biotech instruments for industrial cell culture harvesting.