First person – Deng-Tai Wen

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. Deng-Tai Wen is first author on ‘Endurance exercise protects aging Drosophila from high-salt diet (HSD)-induced climbing capacity decline and lifespan decrease by enhancing antioxidant capacity’, published in BiO. Deng-Tai conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in the sports science-exercise, aging and genetics lab at Ludong University, Yantai, China, investigating the role of exercise in medicine.