First person – Nouf Khan and Talhah Mohd Salmi

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Nouf Khan and Talhah Mohd Salmi are co-first authors on ‘ Optimized methods to image hepatic lipid droplets in zebrafish larvae’, published in DMM. Nouf is a research assistant in the lab of Kirsten C. Sadler at New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, investigating the function of activating transcription factor (Atf6) in the context of development and stress response in zebrafish. Talhah conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Associate Professor Andrew Cox at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia, and is now an In-House Clinical Research Associate at Icon Biotech, South Yarra, Australia, investigating how oncogenic transcription factors regulate metabolism to promote liver cancer.