First person – Jasmine Alqassar

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. Jasmine Alqassar is first author on ‘ WntA expression and wing transcriptomics illuminate the evolution of stripe patterns in skipper butterflies’, published in BiO. Jasmine is a PhD student in the lab of Arnaud Martin at The George Washington University, Washington, USA, investigating how evolutionary changes in developmental processes facilitate adaptation.