First person – Michelle Stewart

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. Michelle Stewart is first author on ‘ Loss of Frrs1l disrupts synaptic AMPA receptor function, and results in neurodevelopmental, motor, cognitive and electrographical abnormalities ’, published in DMM. Michelle is a scientific manager in the lab of Sara Wells at MRC Harwell Institute, Oxfordshire, UK, investigating neurobehavioural genetics, behaviour and ageing in mice.