Lindsay Becker grew up in Louisiana and Texas, attended the University of Texas at Austin, and got her PhD in neuroscience at Stanford University. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Cliff Brangwynne’s lab at Princeton. She researches the mechanisms of mRNA regulation in neurons, a topic that is centrally important in learning and memory and in neurodegenerative diseases like ALS. Her hobbies include trail jogging, rock climbing, and listening to audiobooks.