First person – Clare Muir

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. Clare Muir is first author on ‘ A subset of neutrophil phagosomes is characterised by pulses of Class I PI3K activity’, published in DMM. Clare conducted the research described in this article while a Wellcome 4ward North Clinical Academic Fellow in Professor Steven Renshaw and Professor Alison Condliffe's lab at Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, University of Sheffield, UK. Clare is now a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomic Pathology at the University of Edinburgh, investigating how neutrophils and macrophages kill and digest prey.