After receiving her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked in biotechnology research in both the for-profit and higher education settings before coming to Cornell in 2009.  She has led the launch of two core facilities, the Transcriptional Regulation and Expression (TREx) Facility and the Genomics Innovation Hub (GIH). Jen assumed the directorship of the Genomics Facility in Summer, 2023. To read more about Jen’s expertise and experience, see the leadership page.

After working as a consultant in the IT industry, Paul joined Cornell University to get his master's degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in computational biology. Paul is fascinated by genomics and the application of machine learning to the study of gene interactions and complex diseases. He joined the Genomics Innovation Hub in 2020, where he mostly focuses on identifying genomics markers associated with myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome).

After receiving his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Florida, his first postdoc was at the University of California Riverside as an NSF Plant Genome fellow. Jacob moved to Cornell in 2018 and has been working on a number of genomics projects with a common theme of biodiversity genomics or evolutionary genomics with expertise in genome assembly, phylogenomics, and population genomics. Jacob is also a Research Associate in the School of Integrative Plant Science Section Plant Biology working on the angiosperm genera Calochortus, Glycine, and Tigridia to name a few.

I am interested in how fish movement over evolutionary time impacts and informs conservation genetics. My experience has been with highly migratory fishes in marine systems (sharks, tunas) and my current focus is the anadromous American shad. I am also invested in scientific graphic design, scientific communication, compassionate programming, that is, writing scientific programs that are kind and accessible to both users and developers. To that end, I also develop / maintain several pieces of analytical software and software packages (Harpy, Mimick, Djinn, PopGen.jl, LepWrap, and dDocent) in the R, Python, and Julia languages.