CURRENT POST BBSRC-funded PhD student CONTACT Department of Biology University College London The Galton Laboratory 4 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HE United Kingdom Phone: +44 20 7679 5116 Fax: +44 20 7679 5052 E-mail: k.hutchence@ucl.ac.uk

BRIEF C.V.

2006 – present: BBSRC funded PhD student, University College London

2005 – 2006: Research technician, University of Sheffield

2000 – 2004: MBiolSci Zoology, University of Sheffield

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My interests include host-parasite interactions particularly in invertebrates. Currently I am investigating the relationship between Spiroplasma bacteria and their Drosophila hosts. I will be using microarrays to examine host immune response, and intend to study what allows spiroplasmas without a male-killing phenotype to be maintained in a population, and if such parasites can be beneficial to their host.