First person – Latasha Ludwig

ABSTRACT 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. Latasha Ludwig is first author on ‘ Patient-matched tumours, plasma, and cell lines reveal tumour microenvironment- and cell culture-specific microRNAs’, published in BiO. Latasha conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Geoffrey A. Wood's lab at the Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada. She is now an assistant clinical professor at the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, USA, investigating canine and feline tumour pathology, including microRNAs as prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers.