Mekayla Storer

Mekayla Storer is a developmental biologist focusing on how stem cells regenerate mammalian digits. She obtained her PhD at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain under the guidance of Dr. Bill Keyes where she discovered that senescence evolved as a way to build mammalian limbs and is required for normal development. In 2015, she joined the laboratory of Drs. Freda Miller and David Kaplan at the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada to pursue her post-doctoral training. Here, she spent five years studying stem cell behaviour during neural development and digit tip regeneration using genetic lineage tracing techniques and single cell transcriptomic approaches.

Mekayla is currently a Group Leader at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and affiliate at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at Fitzwilliam College.