Associate Professor Steven Zuryn is a molecular geneticist within the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. He leads an international and diverse team of postdoctoral, PhD, Honours, and undergraduate investigators studying epigenetics and mitochondrial biology. His laboratory’s work focuses on the role and impact of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and is particularly fascinated with mutations that accumulate within the mitochondria’s own genome (mtDNA) during ageing.