First Person: MBL's Ashley Gendreau | Biology Open

An Octopus bimaculoides in the wild. Credit: Roger Hanlon

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. Ashley Gendreau is first author on 91ט How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items91י, published in BIO. Ashley is a research assistant in the lab of Dr Roger Hanlon at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA, investigating marine biology and animal behavior, with a focus on how animals sense, move through and interact with their environments. .

(Note: Tr was the cover story in Biology Open in July 2025.)

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