ECR Spotlight – Allison Litmer

Abstract

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. Allison Litmer is an author on ‘ Cycling temperature treatments affect estimates of digestive performance in prairie lizards (Sceloporus consobrinus)’, published in JEB. Allison conducted the research described in this article while a Doctoral Academy Fellow in Steven J. Beaupre's lab at the University of Arkansas, USA. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the lab of Eric Gangloff at Ohio Wesleyan University, USA, investigating how environmental attributes, in particular temperature, influence ectotherm persistence with a specific emphasis on bioenergetics and life history.