ECR Spotlight – Jai Tiarks

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. Jai Tiarks is an author on ‘ Turbidity drives plasticity in the eyes and brains of an African cichlid’, published in JEB. Jai is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr Suzanne M. Gray at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, investigating how human-induced changes to the environment affect sensory systems, specifically by looking at how vision responds to altered aquatic environments in an African cichlid fish.