ECR Spotlight – Jennifer Steffen

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. Jennifer Steffen is an author on ‘ Combined effects of salinity and intermittent hypoxia on mitochondrial capacity and reactive oxygen species efflux in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas’, published in JEB. Jennifer is a PhD candidate in the lab of Prof. Dr Inna Sokolova at the Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Germany, investigating biochemical and molecular physiological adaptations to environmental changes with a special emphasis on mitochondrial functions.