First person – Gabriel Matos-Rodrigues

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. Gabriel Matos-Rodrigues is first author on ‘Progenitor death drives retinal dysplasia and neuronal degeneration in a mouse model of ATRIP-Seckel syndrome’, published in DMM. Gabriel conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Rodrigo A. P. Martins's lab at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is now a PhD student in the lab of Bernard S. Lopez at Université de Paris, Paris, France, investigating mechanisms of DNA repair and DNA damage response.