First person – Claire Simon

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Claire Simon is first author on ‘A Gata4 nuclear GFP transcriptional reporter to study endoderm and cardiac development in the mouse’, published in BIO. Claire is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis at the Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA, investigating cell fates and dynamic signaling pathways.