ECR Spotlight – Nina Bean

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. Nina Bean is an author on ‘ The scaling of metabolic traits differs among larvae and juvenile colonies of scleractinian corals’, published in JEB. Nina conducted the research described in this article while a Master's student in Dr Peter J. Edmunds's lab at California State University, Northridge, CA, USA. She is now a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Jose Eirin-Lopez at Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA, investigating epigenetics, ecophysiology, early life stages, life history, and the adaptation and acclimatization potential of reef-building corals.