ECR Spotlight – Emelie Brodrick

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. Emelie Brodrick is an author on ‘ A light-off response characterised by body contraction and ciliary arrest in Acropora coral larvae’, published in JEB. Emelie conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoc in Gáspár Jékely's lab at Living Systems Institute, Exeter University, UK. She is now a postdoc in the labs of Lucia Prieto-Godino and Tom Baden at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK, investigating how neural circuits underlying vision and other sensory behaviours evolved and how they function in aquatic invertebrates, using advanced imaging approaches, connectomics and behaviour.