ECR Spotlight – Trina Chou

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. Trina Chou is an author on ‘ I can't hear you: songbird auditory processing in noise’, published in JEB. Trina conducted the research described in this article while an undergraduate research assistant in Megan Gall's lab at Vassar College, USA. She is now a second year PhD candidate in the lab of Jessie Tanner at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, investigating animal acoustic communication and the evolutionary pressures shaping signal evolution.