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 ‘ How octopuses use and recruit additional arms to find and manipulate visually hidden items’, 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. Read interview with Gendreau here.
(Note: This Hanlon lab paper was the cover story in Biology Open in July 2025.)
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