Jennifer Nemhauser

Jennifer Lyn Nemhauser is an American biologist who is a Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.[1] She specializes in synthetic biology, genomics, and signaling dynamics in plants.

Jennifer Lyn Nemhauser
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Wellesley College
Salk Institute
Scientific career
InstitutionsWhitehead Institute
University of Washington
ThesisETTIN and auxin in Arabidopsis gynoecium development (2000)
Doctoral advisorPatricia Zambryski
InfluencesJoanne Chory

Early life and education

Nemhauser was an undergraduate student at Wellesley College, where she majored in biological sciences. Her honours thesis considered the Arabidopsis thaliana Linoleate 9S-lipoxygenase (LOX1) promoter.[2] After graduating, Nemhauser worked as a research assistant at the Whitehead Institute.[3] She was a doctoral researcher in the group of Patricia Zambryski at the University of California, Berkeley.[4] She moved to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies for her postdoctoral studies, where she worked in the laboratory of Joanne Chory.[3] During her postdoctoral research she was first introduced to genomics, where she began to use genomic tools to better understand plant hormone signaling.[5]

Research and career

In 2006, Nemhauser moved to Seattle, where she joined the University of Washington.[3] Her research combines molecular genetics and synthetic biology.[6] Primarily, Nemhauser looks to understand how the regulation of cellular function (e.g. division, differentiation and communication) allows for multi-cellular life.[7] She develops novel tools to investigate the signaling dynamics of plants, including the transmission of the plant hormone auxin.[8] Nemhauser has extensively studied the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to understand how seedlings adapt to their environments.[9]

Select publications
  • Nemhauser, Jennifer L.; Hong, Fangxin; Chory, Joanne (2006-08-11). "Different Plant Hormones Regulate Similar Processes through Largely Nonoverlapping Transcriptional Responses". Cell. 126 (3): 467–475. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.05.050. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 16901781. S2CID 14877520.
  • Hong, Fangxin; Breitling, Rainer; McEntee, Connor W.; Wittner, Ben S.; Nemhauser, Jennifer L.; Chory, Joanne (2006-11-15). "RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis". Bioinformatics. 22 (22): 2825–2827. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl476. ISSN 1460-2059. PMID 16982708.
  • Nemhauser, Jennifer L.; Mockler, Todd C.; Chory, Joanne (2004-08-24). "Interdependency of Brassinosteroid and Auxin Signaling in Arabidopsis". PLOS Biology. 2 (9): e258. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020258. ISSN 1545-7885. PMC 509407. PMID 15328536.

Personal life

Nemhauser is a member of 500 Queer Scientists and has described herself as being bi/pansexual.[10]

References
  1. "Jennifer Nemhauser | UW Biology". www.biology.washington.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
  2. Nemhauser, Jennifer L (1993). Isolation and charachterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana LOX1 Promoter (Thesis). OCLC 371031469.
  3. "nemhauser lab". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
  4. "Jennifer L. Nemhauser —BIO-PROTOCOL". bio-protocol.org. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  5. "Jennifer Nemhauser". comscicon.com. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  6. Burgess, Steven (2019-03-26). "Interviews with synthetic biologists: Professor Jennifer Nemhauser". Plantae. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  7. "Jennifer Nemhauser". www.aiche.org. 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  8. "nemhauser lab". depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  9. "Jennifer Nemhauser". prl.natsci.msu.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  10. "Jennifer Nemhauser". 500 Queer Scientists. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
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