First person – Sara Ibrahim

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sara Ibrahim is first author on ‘A novel Cre-enabled tetracycline-inducible transgenic system for tissue-specific cytokine expression in the zebrafish: CETI-PIC3’, published in DMM. Sara is an MD-PhD student in the lab of Emily K. Sims and Ryan M. Anderson at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA, developing and utilizing molecular biology techniques to study β cell dysfunction.