Stephanie is an undergraduate student currently in her fourth year studying Biology at Dalhousie University. After meeting Dr. Arunika Gunawardena in a developmental biology class she started volunteering in her lab and working with the lace plant in January 2010. Stephanie has enjoyed her volunteer work and learning sterile tissue culturing of the lace plant and various laboratory techniques. As of September 2010 she is excited to be in a Special Topics class with Dr. Gunawardena. For her Special Topics class she will be concentrating her attention on the transvacuolar strands and their role in the programmed cell death process in the lace plant. Stephanie is excited to be learning more in depth plant cell process involved with programmed cell death, and hopes her research will assist the understanding of the the unique developmental process of the lace pant.