Bio
Jessica is an Assistant Professor in the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) program at the Duke-NUS Medical School.
She received her doctorate at the Rockefeller University (Tarakhovsky Lab). She subsequently did her postdoctoral trainings at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (Guccione Lab) in A*STAR, Singapore and in the Department of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City (Marazzi lab).
Jess has had a long-standing interest in understanding how viruses change the host cell transcription and epigenetic machinery during infection. These changes directly impact viral biology. They also impact how the host cell and host organism respond to other infections and/or environmental stressors in the short and long term. By understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying viral induced changes in the host transcriptome and epigenome, we hope to be able to identify suitable therapeutic strategies against viruses and viral induced diseases.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Rockefeller University, United States
Bachelor of Science with Hons
University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States