RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 First person – Anthony Agudelo JF Biology Open JO Biology Open FD Company of Biologists SP bio057216 DO 10.1242/bio.057216 VO 9 IS 10 YR 2020 UL http://bio.biologists.org/content/9/10/bio057216.abstract AB First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Anthony Agudelo is first author on ‘Age-dependent degeneration of an identified adult leg motor neuron in a Drosophila SOD1 model of ALS’, published in BiO. Anthony conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr Geoff Stilwell's lab at Rhode Island College, Providence, USA. He is now a Research Assistant in the lab of Dr James Padbury at Rhode Island College, Providence, USA, investigating using computational biology methods to shed light on the pathology of complex diseases.