2025/04/01 · 1 voice
Chemistry · #History and advancements in chemistry
paper · pdf · doi:10.1242/dmm.052388
openalex publication_date 2025/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/09
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. Mikiko Oka is first author on ‘ Glucose uptake in pigment glia suppresses Tau-induced inflammation and photoreceptor degeneration’, published in DMM. Mikiko conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Kanae Ando's lab at the Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. She is now a postdoc in the lab of Shinya Yamamoto at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA, investigating age-associated human diseases by using Drosophila models.