First person – Alexandria Borges

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Alexandria Borges is first author on ‘ Maternal immune activation does not affect maternal microchimeric cells’, published in BiO. Alexandria conducted the research described in this article while a master's student in Naoki Irie's lab at The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. She is now a research technician in the lab of Keigo Machida/Linda Sher at USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA, exploring cellular interactions in the context of development and cancer.