Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome to spotLights, the interview series that shines a spotlight on cutting-edge biological research and the brilliant minds behind it. spotLights is brought to you by preLights, the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists.
In this episode, we talk to Dr Katelyn Cooper who is an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences of Arizona State University, USA. Katelyn is the first author of a preprinted study (link below) that provides the first comprehensive analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences. Here, we discuss the main findings of this important and timely work.
Link to preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634486v1.full
Link to preLight: prelights.biologists.com/?post_type=highlight&p=40657&preview=true
Hosted by:
Ryan Harrison, PhD student, University of Warwick, UK
Stefan Wirth, Independent researcher, Berlin, Germany
Reinier Prosée, preLights Community Manager
Welcome to spotLights, the interview series that shines a spotlight on cutting-edge biological research and the brilliant minds behind it. spotLights is brought to you by preLights, the preprint highlights service run by the biological community and supported by The Company of Biologists.
In this episode, we talk to Dr Katelyn Cooper who is an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences of Arizona State University, USA. Katelyn is the first author of a preprinted study (link below) that provides the first comprehensive analysis of the LGBTQ+ climate in the biological sciences. Here, we discuss the main findings of this important and timely work.
Link to preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634486v1.full
Link to preLight: prelights.biologists.com/?post_type=highlight&p=40657&preview=true
Hosted by:
Ryan Harrison, PhD student, University of Warwick, UK
Stefan Wirth, Independent researcher, Berlin, Germany
Reinier Prosée, preLights Community Manager
