First person – Julia Loose

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. Julia Loose is first author on ‘ Auxin treatment increases lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans’, published in BiO. Julia is a PhD student in the lab of Arjumand Ghazi, PhD at the University of Pittsburgh Rangos Research Center, Pittsburgh, USA, investigating the relationship between reproduction and aging.