First person – Ivana María Gómez and Maia Abigail Rodríguez

ABSTRACT 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. Ivana María Gómez and Maia Abigail Rodríguez are co-first authors on ‘Inhalation of marijuana affects Drosophila heart function’, published in BIO. Ivana is a biochemistry student from the National University of La Plata, Argentina, in the lab of Paola Ferrero, investigating endocannabinoid system physiology. Maia is a studying biotechnology and molecular biology in the lab of Paola Ferrero at the UNNOBA Foundation, Argentina, investigating signaling pathways inside cells.