First person – Laura Tamberg

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Laura Tamberg is first author on ‘ Daughterless, the Drosophila orthologue of TCF4, is required for associative learning and maintenance of the synaptic proteome ’, published in DMM. Laura is a PhD student in the lab of Tõnis Timmusk at the Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Her research involves investigating the use of Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying transcription factor TCF4-related neuronal diseases.