Nicola Lally is a biological sciences research technician at the University of Essex where she assists our work on RuBP Regeneration in the lab of Christine Raines. Lally earned her bachelor's degree in agricultural zoology from the University of Leeds. She went on to earn her master's degree in applied parasitology and medical entomology from the University of Liverpool before earning a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.