Her early work uncovered a fundamental cell signalling switch that controls when and where neural differentiation begins in the embryo...[1] More recent findings link a component of this, Fibroblast Growth Factor signalling, to molecular machinery that regulates accessibility of neural genes for transcription.
[2] 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 [3] Storey undertook post-doctoral research supported by a Harkness Fellowship with professor David Weisblat,[4] at University of California, Berkeley 1987–88 and worked with Claudio Daniel Stern FRS at the University of Oxford 1990–1994.
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.
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.