Fiona completed her PhD on cellular trafficking with Prof. Margaret Robinson at the University of Cambridge, UK. She was then a Wellcome Trust Prize Post-doctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA in the laboratory of Prof. Sandra Schmid working on trafficking and endocytosis of RTKs. Fiona then joined the IMB, UQ as a Juvenile Diabetes International Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. David James working on insulin responses and trafficking. She then switched fields to work on the cell biology of developmental molecules in IMB, UQ. Fiona joined the Diamantina recently and established her group in February 2010.