First person – Xuming Zhu

Abstract

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. Xuming Zhu is first author on ‘ FZD2 regulates limb development by mediating β-catenin-dependent and -independent Wnt signaling pathways’, published in DMM. Xuming is an instructor in the lab of Sarah E. Millar at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA, investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie the development of appendages, epithelial homeostasis and diseases.