First person – Leah Eller

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. Leah Eller is first author on ‘ GSK3 coordinately regulates mitochondrial activity and nucleotide metabolism in quiescent oocytes’, published in BiO. Leah conducted the research described in this article while a research technician in Dr Matthew Sieber's lab at UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA. She is now a research assistant/lab manager in the lab of Dr Michael Buszczak, at UT Southwestern, investigating in how metabolic functions regulate embryonic development and contribute to disease.