ECR Spotlight – Siyuan Yang

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. Siyuan Yang is an author on ‘ Reward taste conditioning in Drosophila melanogaster’, published in JEB. Siyuan conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Pavel Masek's lab at Binghamton University. Siyuan is now a Postdoc Research Fellow in the lab of Dr Caroline Palavicino-Maggio at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, investigating sex-specific roles of the mammalian CRF-like diuretic neuron and its receptors in regulating aggression in Drosophila.