Kate Storey
{{short description|British developmental biologist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Kate Storey
| nationality = British
| field = neural development
| work_institution = University of Dundee
| alma_mater = University of Sussex; University of Cambridge
| doctoral_advisor = Mike Bate}}
Kate Gillian Storey is a developmental biologist and head of Division of Cell & Developmental Biology at University of Dundee.
Research and career
Storey is a developmental biologist who investigates cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate neural development. Her early work uncovered a fundamental cell signalling switch that controls when and where neural differentiation begins in the embryo...Diez del Corral, R., Olivera-Martinez, I., Goriely, A., Gale, E., Maden, M., and Storey, K (2003) Opposing FGF and Retinoid pathways control ventral neural patterning, neuronal differentiation and segmentation during body axis extension. Neuron 40, 65–79
More recent findings link a component of this, Fibroblast Growth Factor signalling, to molecular machinery that regulates accessibility of neural genes for transcription.Patel, N.S., Rhinn, M., Semprich, C I., Halley, P.A., Dollé P., Bickmore, W.A., and Storey, K.G. (2013) FGF signalling regulates chromatin organisation during neural differentiation via mechanisms that can be uncoupled from transcription PLoS Genet. 2013, 9:e1003614.
Storey and collaborator Jason Swedlow have also pioneered innovative live imaging techniques for monitoring cell behaviour and signalling within developing tissues. These approaches led to the discovery of a new form of cell sub-division, named apical abscission, which mediates the differentiation of new born neurons Das, R.M. and Storey, K.G. (2014) Apical abscission alters cell polarity and dismantles the primary cilium during neurogenesis. Science 343, 200–204
Storey undertook post-doctoral research supported by a Harkness Fellowship with professor David Weisblat,{{cite web |title=Weisblat Lab |url=https://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/weisblat/ |website=Weisblat Lab |accessdate=20 December 2018}} at University of California, Berkeley 1987–88 and worked with Claudio Daniel Stern FRS at the University of Oxford 1990–1994. She established her independent researcher career as fellow of Christ Church, Oxford University of Oxford 1994, moving to the School of Life Sciences,{{cite web |title=School of Life Sciences |url=https://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/ |website=School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee |accessdate=16 December 2018}} University of Dundee in 2000, where she has been Chair of Neural Development (2007) and Head of the Division of Cell & Developmental Biology since 2010.
Storey was elected a member of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2012, the Lister Institute for Preventative Medicine in 2014, European Molecular Biology Organization in 2016 and Academy of Medical Sciences in 2017. She was awarded the MRC Suffrage Science Heirloom Award in 2014{{cite web |title=Suffrage Science 2014 – Award ceremony for achievements in the life sciences |url=https://lms.mrc.ac.uk/public-science/suffrage-science-2014-2/ |website=MRC Public Science |accessdate=16 December 2018 |archive-date=14 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814001626/https://lms.mrc.ac.uk/public-science/suffrage-science-2014-2/ |url-status=dead }} and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2015. Her research has been funded by the Wellcome Trust,{{cite web |title=Wellcome Trust |url=https://wellcome.ac.uk/ |website=Wellcome Trust Home |accessdate=16 December 2018}} Medical Research Council,{{cite web |title=MRC |url=https://mrc.ukri.org/ |website=Medical Research Council, MRC |accessdate=16 December 2018|date=2018-07-05 }} Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,{{cite web |title=BBSRC |url=https://bbsrc.ukri.org/ |website=Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |accessdate=16 December 2018}} The Anatomical Society{{cite web |title=Anatomical Society |url=https://www.anatsoc.org.uk/ |website=Anatomical Society |accessdate=16 December 2018}} and the charity Wings for Life.{{cite web |title=Wings for life |url=https://www.wingsforlife.com/en/ |website=Wings for life |accessdate=16 December 2018}} She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-10 |title=Outstanding scientists elected as Fellows and Foreign Members of the Royal Society |url=https://royalsociety.org/news/2022/05/new-fellows-2022/ |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=Royal Society}}
Art
Storey has worked on collaborative science-art projects, including with her sister Helen Storey, MBE. Their most notable work Primitive Streak{{cite web |title=Primitive Streak Website |url=http://www.primitive-streak.org/gallery.html |website=Primitive Streak |accessdate=20 December 2018}} was funded by one of the first Wellcome Trust Sci-Art awards{{cite web |title=Insight and Exchange |url=https://wellcome.ac.uk/sites/default/files/wtx057228_0.pdf |website=An evaluation of the Wellcome Trust's sciart programme |accessdate=16 December 2018}} in 1997. Named after the structure that organises formation of the tissue layers in the early embryo, this exhibition conveys the first 1000 hours of human embryonic development in a series of dresses and textiles.
References
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External links
- http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/groups/kate_storey//our-research
- https://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/people/kate-storey
- http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/research/cdb
- https://www.neurogenesisandallthatweare.org/home-1/
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Category:British women scientists
Category:Academics of the University of Dundee
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Category:Alumni of the University of Sussex
Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford