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The aim is to explore how insects process stress and trauma, shedding light on their adaptive capabilities.

May 21, 2026

ECR Spotlight – Sajedeh Sarlak

Key Points

The aim is to explore how insects process stress and trauma, shedding light on their adaptive capabilities.
Interviewing early-career author Sajedeh Sarlak on her research into insect memory and stress responses.
Analyzing responses to noxious stimuli and how bumblebees learn to avoid adverse conditions.
Insights from Sajedeh's research contribute to understanding insect behaviour in response to stress.
Highlighting the comparative biology of insects allows for broader implications in understanding other species.

Abstract

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. Sajedeh Sarlak is an author on ‘ Aversive memory and extinction learning for noxious stimuli and aversive tastants in bumblebees’, published in JEB. Sajedeh is a Research Assistant (Behavioural Ecology and Entomology Lab) and Technical Expert in Agricultural Products in the lab of Dr Ahmad Ashouri at the University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran, investigating how insects experience and respond to stress, trauma and pain to better understand their adaptive responses and possible awareness-like states.

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