First person – Maria Losada-Perez

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. Maria Losada-Perez is first author on ‘ A novel injury paradigm in the central nervous system of adult Drosophila : Molecular, cellular and functional aspects ’, published in DMM. Maria is a postdoc in the lab of Sergio Casas-Tintó at the Cajal Institute (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, investigating glial cell responses to central nervous system (CNS) injuries and, in this context, cell communication.