ECR Spotlight – Marilia Fernandes Erickson

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. Marilia Fernandes Erickson is an author on ‘ Common grass blue butterflies (Zizina otis) are toxic throughout their geographic range’, published in JEB. Marilia is a PhD Candidate in the lab of Mariella Herberstein at Macquarie University, Australia, investigating the relative proportion of delicious animals to nasty ones.