ECR Spotlight – Jocelyne Dates

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. Jocelyne Dates is an author on ‘ Voltage-gated ion channel TRP/Painless regulates the excretory function of the Malpighian tubules in larval lepidopterans’, published in JEB. Jocelyne conducted the research described in this article while a master’s student in Dr Dennis Kolosov's lab at California State University San Marcos, USA. Jocelyne is now a PhD student in the lab of Dr Marie Suver at Vanderbilt University, USA, investigating the neural basis of active sensing and how the auditory and motor systems interact during courtship and flight.