ECR Spotlight – Kathryn van Boom

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. Kathryn van Boom is an author on ‘ Does sex matter in the cheetah? Insights into the skeletal muscle of the fastest land animal’, published in JEB. Kathryn is a Postdoctoral research fellow in the lab of Professor Tertius Kohn at University of the Western Cape, South Africa, investigating the mechanisms and physiological response of humans and animals to physiological stressors (such as disease, diet and exercise), particularly in relation to skeletal muscle.