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. Soyam Gupta is first author on ‘ Sexual dimorphism and the impact of aging on ball rolling-associated locomotor behavior in Drosophila’, published in BiO. Soyam is a master's student in the lab of Dr Nisha N. Kannan at IISER Thiruvananthapuram Campus, Kerala, India, investigating understanding neural processes that govern behaviour and establishing connections between individual neurons, circuits, and complex behaviours to unravel the intricacies of brain function and its relevance to neurodegenerative disorders.