First person – Lata Adnani

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Lata Adnani is first author on ‘ Plag1 and Plagl2 have overlapping and distinct functions in telencephalic development ’, published in BiO. Lata conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Carol Schuurmans’ lab at University of Calgary, Canada. She is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Janusz Rak at McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada, investigating neuroscience.