ECR Spotlight – Alyssa Head

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. Alyssa Head is an author on ‘Do morphology–performance relationships vary between sexes in lizards?’, published in JEB. Alyssa conducted the research described in this article while a research assistant in Dr Eric Gangloff's lab in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, and is now a graduate student in the lab of Dr Kinsey Brock at San Diego State University, investigating invasive species, the effects of urbanization and the impact of sexual dimorphism on functional morphology.