ECR Spotlight – Samanta Aparecida Castro

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 during our centenary year but also the huge variety of animals and physiological systems that are essential for the ‘comparative’ approach. Samanta Aparecida Castro is an author on ‘ The reduction in arterial pH with increased temperature is not affected by hyperoxia in toads (Rhinella marina) and pythons (Python molurus)’, published in JEB. Samanta conducted the research described in this article while an Exchange PhD student in Department of Biology – Zoophysiology, Denmark. She is now a PhD student in the Laboratory of Experimental Biology at Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, investigating the impact of increasing body temperature on acid–base regulation in tetrapod vertebrates.