Affiliation: The University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology

Allison Zajac received her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Pennsylvania (USA) in 2013, where she worked in the laboratories of Mike Ostap and Erika Holzbaur and studied how microtubular motors and the actin cytoskeleton move and shape organelles inside mammalian cells. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Sally Horne-Badovinac at the University of Chicago (USA). She works with Drosophila using a combination of genetics and live imaging to understand how molecular motors contribute to the polarized secretion needed for the development of epithelial tissues in vivo.