First person – Alicia Estacio-Gómez

ABSTRACT

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. Alicia Estacio-Gómez is first author on ‘ Dynamic neurotransmitter specific transcription factor expression profiles during Drosophila development ’, published in BiO. Alicia is a research associate (postdoc) in the lab of Tony D. Southall at the Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, UK, investigating neural specification during development and gene regulation.