First person – Meagan S. Siehr

Abstract

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. Meagan S. Siehr is first author on ‘ Arx expansion mutation perturbs cortical development by augmenting apoptosis without activating innate immunity in a mouse model of X-linked infantile spasms syndrome’, published in DMM. Meagan conducted the research described in this article while a predoctoral fellow in Jeffrey L. Noebels's lab at the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. She is now a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Jeffrey L. Noebels at the Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, investigating translational approaches to model catastrophic developmental epilepsies and utilizing these models to understand therapeutic mechanisms.