ECR Spotlight – Maranda van Oirschot

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. Maranda van Oirschot is an author on ‘ Freeze-tolerant crickets fortify their actin cytoskeleton in fat body tissue’, published in JEB. Maranda conducted the research described in this article while a Undergraduate researcher in Jantina Toxopeus's lab at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. Maranda is now a Research Assistant in the lab of Jackie Lebenzon at the University of Calgary, Canada, investigating the molecular physiology of ectotherms (i.e. insects) at low temperatures.