ECR Spotlight – Colton Unger

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. Colton Unger is an author on ‘ Mice selectively bred for increased tibia length exhibit accelerated fracture repair’, published in JEB. Colton conducted the research described in this article while a PhD graduate student in Dr Campbell Rolian's lab at University of Calgary – McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health, Canada. Colton is now a Postdoctoral Researcher in the lab of Dr Chelsea Bahney at University of California San Francisco – Orthopedic Trauma Institute, USA, investigating endochondral ossification (bone formation through a cartilage intermediate) in skeletal development, disease and repair, and the transmission and blockade of musculoskeletal pain.