First person – Lily Kelleher

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. Lily Kelleher is first author on ‘ Impact of rising temperatures on the bacterial communities of Aphaenogaster ants’, published in BiO. Lily conducted the research described in this article while a masters’ graduate student in Manuela Ramalho's lab at West Chester University, PA, USA. She is now a PhD candidate in the lab of Rachelle Adams at the Ohio State University, OH, USA, investigating chemical and microbial ecological interactions to understand their functionality and impact on the ecosystems.