First person – Lelei 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. Lelei Wen is first author on ‘Influence of maternal diet on offspring survivorship, growth, and reproduction in a sheetweb spider’, published in BiO. Lelei is a PhD student in the lab of Daiqin Li at Hubei University, Wuhan, China, investigating spider nutrition ecology.