ECR Spotlight – Caleb Loughran

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 during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Caleb Loughran is an author on ‘ Evaporative cooling via panting and its metabolic and water balance costs for lizards in the American Southwest’, published in JEB. Caleb conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Student in Blair Wolf's lab in the Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, USA. He is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at New Mexico Highland University, USA, investigating the physiological ecology and thermal biology of reptiles, particularly with regard to how climate change will affect species distribution and persistence.