Raised in Sydney, Australia, Archa Fox became interested in molecular biology during high school. “I have a clear memory of that moment when I realized that my science teacher couldn’t answer my question to the level at which I needed an answer, which was a bit of an epiphany. It really made me think about going to a molecular level of understanding biology,” she says. Fox went on to get a bachelor’s degree from the University of New South Wales and a PhD at the University of Sydney before going abroad to do a postdoc in Angus Lamond’s lab at the University of Dundee in Scotland. There, she had little idea that the first project she worked on would lead to the discovery of an entirely new cell component, the paraspeckle.
“I think maybe a lot of people feel at the beginning of their postdoc that they’re casting around trying ...
