ECR Spotlight – Courtney Reed

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. Courtney Reed is an author on ‘ Distinct morphological drivers of jumping and maneuvering performance in gerbils’, published in JEB. Courtney conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Tyler Kartzinel's lab at Brown University, USA. Courtney is now a postdoc in the lab of Deron Burkepile at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, investigating how trophic interactions generate diversity across different levels of biological organization, from individual traits and behavior to larger ecosystem processes.