First person – Ilaria Gregorio

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Ilaria Gregorio is first author on ‘ Collagen VI deficiency causes behavioral abnormalities and cortical dopaminergic dysfunction’, published in DMM. Ilaria conducted the research described in this article while she was a PhD student in Paolo Bonaldo and Matilde Cescon's lab at the University of Padova, Italy. Ilaria is now a research associate in the lab of Botond Roska at the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Switzerland, investigating vision and eye diseases, and developing new therapies for vision loss.