ECR Spotlight – Louisa Lewicki

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. Louisa Lewicki is an author on ‘ A comparison of seasonal flexibility in pectoralis muscle fiber type and enzyme activity in migratory and resident sparrow species’, published in JEB. Louisa conducted the research described in this article while a undergraduate student in Dr Christopher Guglielmo's lab at Western University, Canada. Louisa is now a Graduate Student in the lab of Dr Dean Betts at Western University, Canada, investigating the effects of season and migration distance on muscle fiber, capillary and enzyme activity in three sparrow species.