Abstract
ABSTRACTFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shannon Taylor is first author on ‘The torso-like gene functions to maintain the structure of the vitelline membrane in Nasonia vitripennis, implying its co-option into Drosophila axis formation’, published in BiO. Shannon is a Master's student in the lab of Peter Dearden at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, investigating evolution and development (EvoDevo) and the philosophy of science, thus far using Nasonia as a model species to study various EvoDevo questions.
Highlights
What is your scientific background and the general focus of your lab? My undergraduate degree is in biochemistry, but as I’ve been working in an evolution and development (EvoDevo) lab since early in my degree, I’m as much a geneticist as a biochemist! My research background is primarily classic EvoDevo work on Nasonia
First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers
Shannon Taylor is first author on ‘The torso-like gene functions to maintain the structure of the vitelline membrane in Nasonia vitripennis, implying its co-option into Drosophila axis formation’, published in BiO
Summary
What is your scientific background and the general focus of your lab? My undergraduate degree is in biochemistry, but as I’ve been working in an EvoDevo lab since early in my degree, I’m as much a geneticist as a biochemist! My research background is primarily classic EvoDevo work on Nasonia. First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Shannon Taylor is first author on ‘The torso-like gene functions to maintain the structure of the vitelline membrane in Nasonia vitripennis, implying its co-option into Drosophila axis formation’, published in BiO.
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