First person – Koray Ütkür

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. Koray Ütkür is first author on ‘ DPH1 and DPH2 variants that confer susceptibility to diphthamide deficiency syndrome in human cells and yeast models’, published in DMM. Koray is a PhD student in the lab of Prof. Dr Raffael Schaffrath at Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany, investigating diphthamide deficiency syndrome in yeast cells as a human disease model.