RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 First person – Alexander Akerberg JF Disease Models & Mechanisms JO Dis Models Mech FD The Company of Biologists Limited SP dmm042440 DO 10.1242/dmm.042440 VO 12 IS 10 YR 2019 UL http://dmm.biologists.org/content/12/10/dmm042440.abstract AB First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms (DMM), helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Alexander Akerberg is first author on ‘ Deep learning enables automated volumetric assessments of cardiac function in zebrafish’, published in DMM. Alexander is a postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Caroline E. Burns and C. Geoffrey Burns at Boston Children's Hospital, MA, USA, where he enjoys building new tools while investigating the molecular mechanisms that govern cardiac form and function.