Ella Palmer is a molecular biology expert. She undertook her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, where she developed a large-scale cell-based microarray and identified potential new genes involved in apoptosis, for which a patent was registered. She has since held postdoctoral positions at Imperial College in London, examining the cell polarity of Drosophila photoreceptors, and at University College London, working on a quantitative systems biology initiative for single cell analysis of the NFAT pathway. Most recently she has been working as an intern at a medical writing company.