ECR Spotlight – Sandra Martins

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. Sandra Martins is an author on ‘ Immunological resilience of a temperate catshark to a simulated marine heat wave’, published in JEB. Sandra is a PhD student in the lab of Rui Rosa and Deborah Power from the University of Lisbon, Portugal, investigating how human activities impact shark health by uncovering the immune and neuroendocrine responses that help them adapt and thrive in a changing ocean.