ECR Spotlight – Jason Dallas

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. Jason Dallas is an author on ‘ Cross-species gut microbiota transplantation predictably affects host heat tolerance’, published in JEB. Jason conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Dr Robin Warne's lab at Southern Illinois University, USA. He is now a postdoctoral research assistant in the lab of Dr Donald Walker at Middle Tennessee State University, USA, investigating herpetofauna ecophysiology including thermal biology, host microbiome and responses to human activity.