Kate is a first-year PhD student in the UCL–Birkbeck MRC Doctoral Training Programme, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms of disease. She previously completed an MSci in Cell Biology at UCL, where she studied cell death and cell fate decisions in C. elegans. During her three-month rotation, she is further exploring her interest in the control of developmental cell fate decisions by investigating the role of cis-regulatory elements (CREs) using genomic assays and mass spectrometry approaches.