# First person – Luis E. Salazar Leon

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how Purkinje cell dysfunction affects sleep in ataxic mice and features an interview with the first author, Luis E. Salazar Leon.

## Contribution

The study identifies a link between Purkinje cell dysfunction and disrupted sleep in a mouse model of ataxia.

## Key findings

- Purkinje cell dysfunction disrupts sleep in ataxic mice.
- The research was conducted during Luis E. Salazar Leon's PhD in Roy V. Sillitoe's lab.

## 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. Luis E. Salazar Leon is first author on ‘
Purkinje cell dysfunction causes disrupted sleep in ataxic mice’, published in DMM. Luis conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Roy V. Sillitoe's lab at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. After his PhD, he co-founded Sobek AI in Seattle, Washington, USA, and his current interests lie in using generative AI to accelerate and democratize scientific discovery.