Stephanie Bunt

I first joined the lab in 2003 as a summer student assisting with a GFP protein trap screen for gene expression and protein localisation in Malpighian tubules. I enjoyed my summer so much that I continued in the lab for my final year undergraduate project (2003/2004).

After graduating with a BA in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from Cambridge in 2004 I began my PhD, which is supervised jointly by Helen and Professor Adrian Woolf (Institute of Child Health, London). My project stems from Vikram and Barry's observation that the development of the Malpighian tubule, like that of the mammalian kidney, depends on mesenchymal-to-epithelial cell transformations. The aim of my project is to ascertain whether the control of this cell behaviour is under the same genetic regulation in fly and mammalian renal development.