First person – Shengli Gu

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. Shengli Gu is first author on ‘ Morphological mechanism allowing a parasitic leech, Ozobranchus jantseanus (Rhynchobdellida: Ozobranchidae), to survive in ultra-low temperatures’, published in BiO. Shengli is a PhD student in the lab of Niuwang Nie at Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China, investigating the true cause of the parasite's resistance to adversity from multiple perspectives such as morphology and omics.