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. Casandra Newkirk is first author on ‘ Reproducible propagation technique for the symbiotic cnidarian model system Cassiopea xamachana’, published in BiO. Casandra is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Tingting Xiang, PhD, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, investigating marine ecology with a focus on cnidarian symbiosis.