First person – Anna Lennon

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. Anna Lennon is first author on ‘ Investigating the potential neurotoxic effects of cell-free factors by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on locomotion in Xenopus laevis’, published in BiO. Anna conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate researcher in Dr Chase Kinsey's lab at Belmont University, Nashville, USA. She is now a PhD student at Indiana University in the lab of Dr Jay T. Lennon, investigating the evolution of division of the labour system engaged in dormancy.