Eugene Valkov received his doctorate in molecular biophysics from the University of Oxford in 2008. As a postdoc at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, he conducted structural and biochemical analyses of nuclear export with Murray Stewart. Afterward, in Elisa Izaurralde's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute, he studied the mechanisms of messenger RNA degradation and translational regulation. In 2019, he moved to the United States to join the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. His group is interested in the molecular mechanisms of messenger RNA regulation.

Catherine Musselman received her PhD from the University of Michigan, where she studied RNA dynamics using NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations working with Hashim Al-Hashimi and Ioan Andricioaei. She then continued her training as an NIH postdoctoral fellow with Tatiana Kutateladze studying histone post-translational modification readout mechanisms. She started her laboratory at the University of Iowa in 2013 and moved to the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2019. Her laboratory currently takes a multidisciplinary approach to studying how the nucleosome context regulates histone PTM readout and dictates the histone code.

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