First person – Avik Banerjee

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Avik Banerjee is first author on ‘ Stress-induced elemental retention in an ectothermic vertebrate’, published in BiO. Avik is a PhD student in the lab of Maria Thaker at the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, investigating how animals make dietary nutritional choices under different ecological contexts and how these choices affect their survival and reproduction.