With the recent publication in the Journal of Experimental Biology, MSc student Mellissa Easwaramoorthy was featured in an ECR spotlight! Mellissa’s paper was entitled Elevated temperature during rearing diminishes swimming and disturbs the metabolism of yellow perch larvae. This research was from her undergraduate research in the lab, where she was involved in studies where we reared yellow perch embryos at different temperatures. Mellissa started as a 3rd year student in the lab, worked as a summer researcher for 2 years and completed her undergraduate thesis on this project. She looked at the effects of rearing environment on cardiac development, metabolism and behaviour in an important fish species. Yellow perch are a critical culture, ecological, and economic species for both recreational and https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/20/jeb251676/369589/ECR-Spotlight-Mellissa-Easwaramoorthy