First person – Emily Fackler

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. Emily Fackler is first author on ‘ Elucidating the genetic architecture of migratory timing in a songbird migrant, the great reed warbler, Acrocephalus arundinaceus’, published in BiO. Emily conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate researcher in Dr Robert Fitak's lab at the University of Central Florida, USA. Emily is now a conservation and science technician for Disney's Animals, Science and Environment, investigating the overlap between the fields of genetics and animal behaviour.