ECR Spotlight – Martin Dessart

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. Martin Dessart is an author on ‘ Acute and chronic sublethal chemical pollution affects activity, learning and memory in mosquito larvae’, published in JEB. Martin conducted the research described in this article while a PhD candidate in Claudio Lazzari's lab at Insect Biology Research Institute - UMR 7261 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/University of Tours, France. Martin is now a Postdoctoral associate in the lab of Clement Vinauger at Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, USA, investigating how animals, particularly insects, integrate information from their environment to adapt their behaviour.