ECR Spotlight – Olivia Nunn and Tobias McCabe

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. Olivia Nunn and Tobias McCabe are authors on ‘ A method for mechanically blocking antennal joints in Drosophila’, published in JEB. Olivia is a PhD candidate in the lab of Marie Suver at Vanderbilt University, USA, investigating the neural circuit mediating sensory-motor integration in the antennae of Drosophila, with broader interests in understanding how the nervous system monitors and modulates motor output. Tobias is a PhD student in the lab of Marie Suver at Vanderbilt University, USA, investigating sensorimotor modulation to better understand how individual pieces come together to form a whole, dynamic functional unit.