ECR Spotlight – Emmanuel Medrano

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. Emmanuel Medrano is an author on ‘ Osmolarity regulates Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying behavior via chemosensory and biophysical mechanisms’, published in JEB. Emmanuel conducted the research described in this article while a Graduate Student in Kevin Collins's lab at University of Miami. Emmanuel is now a Postdoctoral Associate in the lab of Rebecca Yang at Duke University Medical School, USA, investigating how the brain integrates sensory and internal state information to produce adaptive decisions and behaviors.