ECR Spotlight – Xochitl Vital

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. Xochitl Vital is an author on ‘ The photoacclimation state of stolen chloroplasts affects the light preferences in the photosynthetic sea slug Elysia crispata’, published in JEB. Xochitl conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Nuno Simões's lab at School of Sciences UMDI-Sisal, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico. Xochitl is now a postdoc in the lab of Leopoldina Aguirre at Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Merida, Mexico, investigating diversity, ecology and distribution of aquatic benthic invertebrates, mostly marine mollusks.