Affiliation: Utrecht University, Netherlands

Joyce Meiring obtained a bachelor in biomedical science with first class honors from  University of Queensland, by then the cytoskeleton had already peaked her interests. She completed her PhD in 2018 at University of New South Wales working on the organization and recruitment of the tropomyosin family of actin-regulators where she received a Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses. She is currently doing a postdoc under an EMBO fellowship at the University of Utrecht, probing the biomechanical roles of microtubules using light-switchable tools.