First person – Emily Harders

Abstract

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Emily Harders is first author on ‘ Avian extraembryonic membranes respond to yolk corticosterone early in development’, published in BiO. Emily conducted the research described in this article while a master's student in Dr Ryan Paitz's lab at Illinois State University, Normal, USA. She is now currently a specimen processing technician at Nebraska Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, while she applies for PhD programs. She is interested in understanding how maternal/fetal signalling is regulated in extraembryonic tissues.