ECR Spotlight – Katherine Malinski and Olivia Madalone

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. Katherine Malinski and Olivia Madalone are authors on ‘ The role of a viral symbiont in the thermal mismatch of host–parasitoid interactions’, published in JEB. Katherine is a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the lab of Ted Schultz and Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo at National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology, USA, investigating species interactions and their response to environmental variability, with a special focus on insects and their associated microbes. Olivia is a Medical student at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, USA, investigating factors that predict heart failure in older adults.