Katja Graumann graduated in 2005 from Oxford Brookes University with a first-class BSc in Cell Biology and Human Biology, winning the Society for General Microbiology student of the year award and the Institute of Biology top bioscience student award. Katja gained research experience as a researcher for Oxford Expression Technologies and at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg before beginning her PhD supervised by David Evans, John Runions and Sarah Irons in the Cell Biology Research Group at Oxford Brookes. Katja’s PhD research focuses on the proteins of the inner nuclear envelope using a variety of techniques, including live cell imaging and immunocytochemistry. Katja’s work described in the poster concerned the novel identification of SUN domain proteins - the first potential members of the Linker of Cytoskeleton and Nucleoskeleton (LINC) complex to be described in plants. In addition, she has used fluorescence photobleaching techniques together with site-directed mutagenesis to explore the mechanisms for protein targeting and retention at the plant inner nuclear envelope, described in a paper in Biology of the Cell 99, 541-600 (2007). Katja is about to submit her PhD and continue in a post-doctoral position to explore the role of the SUN domain proteins in the plant inner nuclear envelope.