ECR Spotlight – Patrícia Ferreira

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. Patrícia Ferreira is an author on ‘ A second look at the stomach – a fishy perspective’, published in JEB. Patrícia conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Dr Jonathan M. Wilson's lab at Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Patrícia is now a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Dr Kathleen Gilmour at Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada, investigating comparative vertebrate physiology, ion regulation and gastrointestinal physiology.