Yumeng joined the UW–Madison Cryo-EM Research Center (CEMRC) and the Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography (MCCET) in December 2023. She finished her Ph.D. degree in Dr. Martin St. Maurice’s lab at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Her PhD research project was to investigate the mechanism of allosteric regulation of pyruvate carboxylase using Enzymology and Structural Biology approaches. After graduation, Yumeng had her first postdoctoral training in Dr. Shu-ou Shan’s lab at the California Institute of Technology, where she studied the molecular mechanism of membrane protein relay and triage using single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. She then joined Dr. Brian Kelch’s lab at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School to study the endogenous virus-like particle formed by the retrotransposon Copia from Drosophila using single-particle Cryo-EM.