ECR Spotlight – Ciaran Shaughnessy

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. Ciaran Shaughnessy is an author on ‘ A Cftr-independent, Ano1-rich seawater-adaptive ionocyte in sea lamprey gills’, published in JEB. Ciaran conducted the research described in this article while a Doctoral Student in Stephen McCormick's lab at Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center, US Geological Survey, USA. Ciaran is now an Assistant Professor of Integrative Physiology at the Department of Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University, USA, investigating ionoregulatory and stress physiology across evolutionary, ecological and translational contexts.