ECR Spotlight – Sulayman Lyons

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. Sulayman Lyons is an author on ‘ Highland deer mice support increased thermogenesis in response to chronic cold hypoxia by shifting uptake of circulating fatty acids from muscles to brown adipose tissue’, published in JEB. Sulayman conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Grant McClelland's lab at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. He is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr Jacqueline Beaudry at University of Toronto, Canada, investigating how animals can partition metabolic substrates to fuel metabolism.