Erica Murbach, Ph.D., joined the LSI cryo-EM team in April 2024. Erica completed her graduate studies in cell biology with Heidi Hehnly at Upstate Medical University, where she developed her knowledge and skills as a confocal and super-resolution light microscopist studying PLK1 interactions and activities during mitosis. She then went on to work for Ryoma Ohi as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan for a short time, developing tools to understand the relationship between the kinesin HSET and centrosome clustering during mitosis. From there, she completed postdoctoral studies at University of South Florida in Huzefa Dungrawala’s lab, determining the differential DNA fork protection methods and replication stress responses between early and late S-phase cells. While at the LSI, Erica will help make cryo-ET and CLEM accessible to researchers within and outside of the LSI.