First person – Brittany Carr

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Brittany Carr is first author on ‘ prominin-1-null Xenopus laevis develop subretinal drusenoid-like deposits, cone-rod dystrophy and RPE atrophy’, published in JCS. Brittany is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, where her lab investigates frog models of inherited and age-related blindness.