ECR Spotlight – Gwenaëlle Deconninck and Wendy Destierdt

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. Gwenaëlle Deconninck and Wendy Destierdt are authors on ‘ Temperature overrides nutritional cues for optimal oviposition decision in a polyphagous invasive insect’, published in JEB. Gwenaëlle conducted the research described in this article while a PhD student in Sylvain Pincebourde, Olivier Chabrerie and Vincent Foray's lab at Tours University, France. Gwenaëlle is now a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Tobias Uller at Lund University, Sweden, investigating how organisms adapt to challenging conditions. Wendy conducted the research described in this article while a graduate student in Gwenaëlle Deconninck and Sylvain Pincebourde's lab at Tours University, France. Wendy is now a PhD student in the lab of François Renoz and Thierry Hance at University catholic of Louvain, Belgium, investigating thermal ecology, host–parasitoid and symbiotic interactions.