First person – Rita Serrano

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. Rita Serrano is first author on ‘ Novel preclinical model for CDKL5 deficiency disorder’, published in DMM. Rita is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Prof. Robert Bryson-Richardson at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include neuromuscular disease modelling in zebrafish and identification of translational therapies.