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. Callum McLean is an author on ‘ The kinematics of amblypygid (Arachnida) pedipalps during predation: extreme elongation in raptorial appendages does not result in a proportionate increase in reach and closing speed’, published in JEB. Callum conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Charlotte A. Brassey's lab at the Ecology and Environment Research Centre, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is now a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the lab of David N. Fisher at the University of Aberdeen, UK, investigating how and why animals, particularly arthropods, move and behave.
Publisher
The Company of Biologists