Dr Alison Walters completed her doctorate at the University of York, studying DNA replication in the methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus mariplaudis. She then spent 6 years as a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where she studied the regulation of nuclear morphology in Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the Cohen-Fix lab. She subsequently moved back to the UK and took up the position of Project Manager for a BBSRC-funded IB Catalyst grant in Prof. Robinson’s lab at the University of Kent, before moving to her current position as Project Manager for the GCRF project.