I grew up in Rochester, NY (USA, but right across the lake from Toronto, so basically Canada) and majored in Biology and Chemistry at Duke University. I fell in love with cell biology during my PhD at Stanford, where I studied bacterial chromosome dynamics with Julie Theriot and picked up some polymer physics from Andy Spakowitz. For my postdoc, I moved to Cliff Brangwynne’s lab at Princeton to investigate nucleolar assembly and size in worms. I took a brief “sabbatical” to teach full-time at Santa Clara University before coming to McGill in 2016. Now I’m lucky to work with the amazing people below as we explore spatial organization in various biological systems. Away from the lab, I enjoy hiking, jigsaw puzzles and college basketball (Go Devils!).