First person – Alessandro A. Bailetti

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Alessandro Bailetti is first author on ‘ Enhancer of polycomb/Tip60 represses hematological tumor initiation by negatively regulating JAK/STAT pathway activity ’, published in DMM. Alessandro conducted the research described in this article while a graduate assistant in Dr Erika A. Bach's lab at New York University (NYU) School of Medicine, New York, USA. He is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Anthony Oro at Program in Epithelial Biology, Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, investigating development, genetics, genomics, cell signaling, gene transcription and chromatin modification.