ECR Spotlight – Syeda Mehreen Tahir

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. Syeda Mehreen Tahir is an author on ‘ Protein-biased diets enhance immune responses but increase fungal susceptibility in desert locusts’, published in JEB. Syeda Mehreen is a Research Associate in the lab of Dr Arianne Cease and Dr Jon Harrison at Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, USA, investigating host–pathogen interactions using dietary macronutrient balance to mechanistically understand immune function and pathogen responses.