Abstract
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Patrick Cunningham is the first author on 'Neurodegeneration and locomotor dysfunction in Drosophila scarlet mutants', published in Journal of Cell Science. Patrick is a PhD student in the lab of Daniel T. Babcock at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, investigating the loss of dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila in a model for Parkinson's disease.
