ECR Spotlight – Facundo Fernandez-Duque

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. Facundo Fernandez-Duque is an author on ‘ Egg shape and color mediate acceptance thresholds in diverse avian host species with different rates of antiparasitic egg rejection’, published in JEB. Facundo is a PhD student in the lab of Mark Hauber and Alison Bell (co-advised) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, investigating the mechanisms that drive variation in crucial yet adaptable behaviors.