First person – Kayla Mills

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. Kayla Mills is first author on ‘ Low colostrum intake results in potential accumulation of peroxisome lipid substrates in vaginal tissues of 3-week-old gilts’, published in BiO. Kayla conducted the research described in this article while a graduate research assistant in Theresa Casey and Kara Stewart's lab at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. She is now a research physiologist (USDA-ARS) at USDA, ARS, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory, Beltsville, investigating the use of multiomic approaches to identify infertility biomarkers and further understand the mechanism behind infertility in livestock.