ECR Spotlight – Laura Mendez

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. Laura Mendez is an author on ‘ Wind gradient exploitation during foraging flights by black skimmers (Rynchops niger)’, published in JEB. Laura is a PhD student in the lab of Tyson Hedrick at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, investigating how animals use their bodies to move through, and interact with, their environment, modifying their behavior according to available resources.