First person – Julia Abitbol

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Julia Abitbol is the first author on ‘Mice harbouring an oculodentodigital dysplasia-linked Cx43 G60S mutation have severe hearing loss’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Julia is a PhD student in the lab of Dale Laird at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, investigating the mechanisms of connexin-induced hearing loss.