# First person – Latifa Bakiri

## TL;DR

Latifa Bakiri discusses her research on a new dual reporter allele for tumor imaging in mice and her work on AP-1 transcription factors.

## Contribution

Development of a new effLuc/Kate dual reporter allele for improved tumor imaging in mice.

## Key findings

- The effLuc/Kate dual reporter allele enables efficient tumor imaging in mice.
- The research contributes to understanding AP-1 transcription factor functions in disease.

## 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. Latifa Bakiri is first author on ‘
A new effLuc/Kate dual reporter allele for tumour imaging in mice’, published in DMM. Latifa is a senior postdoc in the lab of Erwin F. Wagner at Medical University of Vienna, Department of Laboratory Medicine, investigating the functions of the proteins forming the AP-1 transcription factor in physiology and disease by using state-of-the-art genetically engineered mouse models.