ECR Spotlight – Benjamin Negrete, Jr

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. Benjamin Negrete is an author on ‘ Implications of chronic hypoxia during development in red drum’, published in JEB. Benjamin conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Dr Andrew Esbaugh's lab at University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute. He is now a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Dr Jeffrey Richards at University of British Columbia, Canada, investigating how fish respond to a changing world and the mechanisms and adaptations that allow them to survive and thrive.