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Interview series highlights early-career researchers' work on navigation in animals, showcasing diversity.
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. Lin Jiang is an author on ‘ How the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis uses its nest hill for homing’, published in JEB. Lin is a PhD student in the lab of Markus Knaden at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany, investigating learning strategies, navigation and adaptive behaviour in the desert ant Cataglyphis.
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