First person – Stephanie LaHaye and Uddalak Majumdar

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. Stephanie LaHaye and Uddalak Majumdar are co-first authors on ‘ Developmental origins for semilunar valve stenosis identified in mice harboring congenital heart disease-associated GATA4 mutation ’, published in DMM. Stephanie is a postdoc in the lab of Richard K. Wilson at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA, investigating the use of bioinformatic and genomic approaches to better understand how the coding and noncoding genome are associated with pediatric brain tumors. Uddalak is a postdoc in the lab of Vidu Garg at the Center for Cardiovascular Research, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, USA, investigating the mechanism of aortic valve calcification using genetic and proteomic approaches.