RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 First person – Stephanie Fernandes JF Disease Models & Mechanisms JO Dis Models Mech FD The Company of Biologists Limited SP dmm043851 DO 10.1242/dmm.043851 VO 13 IS 2 YR 2020 UL http://dmm.biologists.org/content/13/2/dmm043851.abstract AB First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Stephanie Fernandes is first author on ‘Altered in vitro muscle differentiation in X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy’, published in DMM. Stephanie conducted the research described in this article while a master's degree student in Mariz Vainzof's lab at the Human Genome and Stem-Cell Research Center, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She is now a PhD student in the lab of Constantinos Demetriades at Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany, investigating how nutritional status can regulate cell growth in health and age-related disease.