First person – Hui-Ying Tsai and Shih-Cheng Wu

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. Hui-Ying Tsai and Shih-Cheng Wu are co-first authors on ‘ Loss of the Drosophila branched-chain α-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex results in neuronal dysfunction ’, published in DMM. Hui-Ying is a research assistant in the lab of Chun-Hong Chen at National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan. Her research interest is modeling the human neurological disease maple syrup urine disease in Drosophila , assessing behavior as well as brain damage. Shih-Cheng is a postdoc in the same lab, with interests in modeling human disease and immunometabolism.