First person – Helen Eachus

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. Helen Eachus is first author on ‘ Glucocorticoid receptor regulates protein chaperone, circadian clock and affective disorder genes in the zebrafish brain’, published in DMM. Helen conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral research associate in Dr Vincent Cunliffe's lab at University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. She is now a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Prof. Soojin Ryu at University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, investigating how stress affects the brain and behaviour in the context of health and disease.