First person – Matthew T. Pereira

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. Matthew T. Pereira is first author on ‘Effect of dietary additives on intestinal permeability in vivo in Drosophila and in vitro in a human cell co-culture’, published in DMM. Matthew is a 4th year PhD student being paid as a research assistant. The Principal Investigator of his lab is Laura Palanker Musselman, and he is interested in how diet affects physiology.