First person – Alexandra Venuto

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. Alexandra Venuto is first author on ‘ Alone in a crowd: Effect of a nonfunctional lateral line on expression of the social hormone parathyroid hormone 2’, published in BiO. Alexandra is a PhD Student in the lab of Dr. Timothy Erickson at East Carolina University, investigating the involvement of the mechanosensory lateral line in social behavior and surfacing behaviors in larval zebrafish.