Interview highlights research on toxins in molluscs, showing biochemical defenses against mealworm beetles in experimental biology.
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. Kevin Soldati is an author on ‘ The biochemical defenses of Pomacea snail eggs are effective against mealworm beetles’, published in JEB. Kevin is a PhD student at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas de La Plata, Argentina, investigating the biochemistry and physiology of toxins associated with molluscs.
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