First person – Claudia Figueroa-Romero and Benjamin Murdock

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. Claudia Figueroa-Romero and Benjamin Murdock are co-first authors on ‘ Temporal evolution of the microbiome, immune system and epigenome with disease progression in ALS mice’, published in DMM. Claudia is an Assistant Research Scientist in the lab of Eva L. Feldman at the Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, USA, investigating how life-long environmental exposures, including the microbiome, may play a role in the development of late-onset neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS. Benjamin is a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Eva L. Feldman, examining the role of the immune system in ALS progression.