First person – Louis Widom

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. Louis Widom is first author on ‘ Antibiotics modulate Escherichia coli-derived bacterial extracellular vesicle production and their upregulation of ICAM-1 in human endothelial cells’, published in BiO. Louis is a PhD candidate in the lab of Thomas R. Gaborski at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA, investigating the role of pathogenic bacterial extracellular vesicles in sepsis and in disruption of the blood-brain barrier.