First person – Sophie Frampton

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. Sophie Frampton is first author on ‘ Modelling the structure of Short Gastrulation and generation of a toolkit for studying its function in Drosophila’, published in BiO. Sophie is a postdoc in the lab of Hilary Ashe at The University of Manchester, UK, investigating the processes governing tissue patterning and mechanisms of cell signal regulation.