Jenny Chen

I am interested in understanding how genes encode behavioral traits. I take advantage of evolutionary patterns of innate animal behaviors combined with comparative genomics, single cell transcriptomics, and other large-scale sequencing approaches to investigate how genes govern behavior.

I am an NIH MOSAIC K99/R00 scholar and formerly a Harvard Data Science Fellow. My work is a collaboration between the Hoekstra Lab and the Eddy Lab at Harvard University. Prior to this, I received my PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from MIT where I was advised by Aviv Regev.