Maria joined Mardakheh's lab in April 2017 as a postdoctoral researcher. She studied the relationship between RNA localisation and protein expression in mammalian cells. Synthesis of proteins from mRNA is not a 1 to 1 process, and there are many biochemical processes that impact on protein translation. One of them is dynamic movement of transcripts within the cellular milieu. During her time in Mardakheh's lab, Maria used multi-omics approaches to assess how RNA localisation is dysregulated in cancer cells via action of different RBPs, in order to promote a malignant phenotype. Maria's work has been published in Developmental Cell (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2020.10.006) and STAR Protocols (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xpro.2021.100462).