ECR Spotlight – Yanira Jiménez-Padilla

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. Yanira Jiménez-Padilla is an author on ‘ Live yeasts accelerate Drosophila melanogaster larval development’, published in JEB. Yanira is a PhD student in the lab of Brent J. Sinclair at Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, Canada, investigating how gut microbes, especially yeasts, affect their host physiology.