#  Jenny Chen 

NIH MOSAIC K99/R00 scholar 

Hopi Hoekstra Lab

 

 

 



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 smartphone [617-496-7450](tel:617-496-7450) 

 email [jennifer\_chen@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:jennifer_chen@fas.harvard.edu) 

 laptop\_windows [Jenny Chen's personal website](https://jjenny.github.io/index.html) 

 

 



 

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](https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/extramural/training-career-dev/mosaic-program.html) and formerly a [Harvard Data Science Fellow](https://datascience.harvard.edu/). My work is a collaboration between the [Hoekstra Lab](https://hoekstra.oeb.harvard.edu/) and the [Eddy Lab](http://eddylab.org/) at Harvard University. Prior to this, I received my PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from MIT where I was advised by [Aviv Regev](https://www.gene.com/scientists/our-scientists/aviv-regev).