ECR Spotlight – Carmen da Silva

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. Carmen da Silva is an author on ‘ Temperature and precipitation explain variation in metabolic rate but not frequency of gas exchange in Fijian bees’, published in JEB. Carmen conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral Researcher at Monash University and Macquarie University, Australia, working with Lesley Alton and Vanessa Kellermann. Carmen is now a Macquarie University Research Fellow, working with Dr Oliver Griffith and Prof. Ajay Narendra at Macquarie University, Australia, investigating the functional basis of organismal and ecosystem resilience to global change.