First person – Essi Wallén

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. Essi Wallén is first author on ‘ Effects of alcohol on the transcriptome, methylome and metabolome of in vitro gastrulating human embryonic cells’, published in DMM. Essi is a PhD researcher in the lab of Nina Kaminen-Ahola at Environmental Epigenetics Laboratory, Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, Medicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, investigating how alcohol influences the early human development.