First person – Caroline Beltran

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. Caroline Beltran is first author on ‘ Correlative 3D imaging method for analysing lesion architecture in susceptible mice infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis’, published in DMM. Caroline conducted the research described in this article while a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Gerhard Walzl's lab at Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, and is now a Scientific Director at Synexa Life Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa, leveraging 3D imaging to decipher host–pathogen interactions and unravel treatment responses in tuberculosis (TB).