ECR Spotlight – Samanta Castro

ECR Spotlight is a series of interviews with early-career authors from a selection of papers published in Journal of Experimental Biology and aims to promote not only the diversity of early-career researchers (ECRs) working in experimental biology but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Samanta Castro is an author on ‘ The relevance of vascular adjustments to hemodynamic control in the face of temperature change in Crotalus durissus’, published in JEB. Samanta is a PhD student in the lab of Dr Cléo Leite at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, investigating the multiple and intricate autonomic modulations of the cardiovascular system that properly support metabolic adjustments in ectotherms vertebrates, which is especially challenging in animals with vascular shunts.