First person – Sijie Tan and Wen Han Tong

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. Sijie Tan and Wen Han Tong are co-first authors on ‘ Impaired episodic-like memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease is associated with hyperactivity in prefrontal–hippocampal regions’, published in DMM. Sijie conducted the research described in this article while a postdoc in Ajai Vyas's lab at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Nora Kory at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, investigating the pathobiology of age-related brain disorders. Wen Han Tong is a postdoc in the lab of Ajai Vyas at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, investigating neurobiology and translational neuroscience to find interventions for brain diseases.