ECR Spotlight – Luke Flewwelling

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. Luke Flewwelling is an author on ‘ Thermoregulatory trade-offs underlie the effects of warming summer temperatures on deer mice’, published in JEB. Luke conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student (MSc) in Dr Graham Scott's lab at McMaster University, Canada. He is now a PhD student in the lab of Dr Arthur Cheng at York University, Canada, investigating muscle physiology and the mechanisms by which exercise can create physiological change in individuals. Currently he is studying how various types of exercise training impact muscle fatigue tolerance and calcium signalling in single muscle fibres.