First person – Marion Lechable and Alexandre Jan

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. Marion Lechable and Alexandre Jan are co-first authors on ‘An improved whole life cycle culture protocol for the hydrozoan genetic model Clytia hemisphaerica’, published in BiO. Marion is a Marie-Curie Sklodowska PhD student (ARDRE doctoral programme) in the lab of Professor Bert Hobmayer at University of Innsbruck, Institute of Zoology, Austria, investigating stem cell biology, regeneration, aging and cnidarians models. Alexandre was an engineer assistant in the lab of Dr Tsuyoshi Momose at Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, at the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche, France, investigating capture breeding, cnidarians models, gelatinous plankton, improving culturing protocols and regeneration.