ECR Spotlight – Luella Allen-Waller

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. Luella Allen-Waller is an author on ‘Comparative physiology reveals heat stress disrupts acid–base homeostasis independent of symbiotic state in the model cnidarian Exaiptasia diaphana’, published in JEB. Luella is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Katie Barott at Leidy Laboratories of Biology, Philadelphia, PA, USA, investigating how symbiotic relationships respond to environmental change.