First person – Hamna Ammar

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. Hamna Ammar is first author on ‘ Enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (Ezh2) is required in mouse Isl1-expressing progenitors for proper development of cardiac and skeletal hindlimb structures’, published in BiO. Hamna conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate student researcher in Dr Paul Delgado-Olguin's lab at the Peter Gilgan Center of Research and Learning, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. She is now an MSc graduate student in the lab of Dr Lena Serghides at The University of Toronto, investigating genetic and environmental determinants of cardiovascular diseases, with a special focus on maternal cardiovascular health and congenital cardiovascular disorders.