ECR Spotlight – Maitry Jani

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. Maitry Jani is an author on ‘ Functional diversity and behavioural use of fibre-producing silk glands in Pholcus phalangioides’, published in JEB. Maitry is a PhD student/researcher in the lab of Dr Jonas O Wolff at University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany, investigating how spiders use silk in different behavioural and ecological contexts, using evolutionary, morphological and experimental approaches.