ECR Spotlight – Tarun Sharma

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. Tarun Sharma is an author on ‘ The role of haltere campaniform sensilla in equilibrium reflexes of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster’, published in JEB. Tarun was a PhD student in the lab of Michael Dickinson at the California Institute of Technology, USA; he completed his PhD in the lab of Joe Parker, investigating computer vision applications for ecology and neuroethology, with a focus on quantifying insect behavior in lab and field settings.