ECR Spotlight – Ivana Lezcano

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. Ivana Lezcano is an author on ‘ Using the axial skeleton as armor: mechanical behavior of sea turtle carapaces throughout ontogeny’, published in JEB. Ivana is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Jeanette Wyneken at Florida Atlantic University, USA, investigating the anatomy and morphology of marine turtles with an emphasis on biomechanics.