First person – Maria Replogle

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 Replogle is first author on ‘ Establishment of a murine culture system for modeling the temporal progression of cranial and trunk neural crest cell differentiation ’, published in DMM. Maria is a PhD student (dissertator) in the lab of Ava J. Udvadia at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA, investigating the genetic and environmental factors that contribute to developmental birth defects and disorders, particularly those that impact the formation of the skeletal elements in the head.