In the First Author Talks series we talk with first authors about their papers, the Struggles to get to this point and about life as a Scientist. In this episode we invited our good friend Maria Clemente as our first podcast guest and talked about the paper she recently published and her life as a PhDer. Paper: Four-and-a-half LIM domain protein 2 (FHL2) deficiency protects mice from diet-induced obesity and high FHL2 expression marks human obesity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metabol.2021.154815