First person – Haimeng Lyu

ABSTRACT 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. Haimeng Lyu is first author on ‘ Functional distinction in oncogenic Ras variant activity in Caenorhabditis elegans’, published in DMM. Haimeng conducted the research described in this article while a Research Assistant in Helen Chamberlin's lab at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. She is now a Research Senior Technician in the lab of Wenjing Sun (Department of Neuroscience, Columbus), investigating mechanisms that mediate myelin development.