ECR Spotlight – Bethany Williams

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. Bethany Williams is an author on ‘ Alteration of reproductive behaviors by aromatase inhibition is population dependent in an African cichlid fish’, published in JEB. Bethany conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Suzanne Gray and Lauren Pintor's lab at The Ohio State University, USA. Bethany now has a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology in the lab of Michael Tobler at University of Missouri-St Louis, USA, investigating how animals evolve to survive in extreme environments and how they respond to multiple environmental stressors.