ECR Spotlight – Kelton Verble and Ellen Keaveny

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. Kelton Verble and Ellen Keaveny are authors on ‘A rapid return to normal: temporal gene expression patterns following cold exposure in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens’, published in JEB. Kelton is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Jeffrey Lozier at The University of Alabama, USA, investigating the transcriptomics and epigenomics underlying thermal tolerance in bumble bees. Ellen is a PhD candidate in the lab of Michael Dillon at the University of Wyoming, USA, investigating how temperature affects bumble bees at cellular, organismal, population and community levels.