ECR Spotlight – Jasmine Nirody

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. Jasmine Nirody is an author on ‘ Flexible locomotion in complex environments: the influence of species, speed and sensory feedback on panarthropod inter-leg coordination’, published in JEB. Jasmine conducted the research described in this article while a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. She is now Assistant Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, USA, investigating the physical interactions between organisms and their environments, and how these interactions in turn shape organismal form and behavior.