Director of Plant Systems Biology
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Adelaide
Berkeley, California
Jenny completed at BSc in Biology at the University of Bristol, UK. After receiving EPSRC and BBSCR scholarships, she completed an MRes in Bioinformatics (University of Exeter UK) and a PhD in Plant Sciences (University of Cambridge, UK, 2008). She remained at Cambridge University, where as part of the UK bioenergy research center (BSBEC) and an EU FP7 program on biomass improvement (RENEWALL), she completed postdoctoral research on plant cell wall biosynthesis (e.g. Mortimer et al. 2010, PNAS) and deconstruction (e.g. Rogowski et al. 2015. Nat Commun). During this time, she also discovered a Golgi nucloetide sugar transporter with an unexpected role in sphingolipid glycosylation (Mortimer et al. 2013, Plant Cell). In 2013, she was awarded a fellowship to continue this research as part of the RIKEN cellulose bioengineering center in Yokohama, Japan. In 2014 she joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI, www.jbei.org), a ten year, $259M DOE funded project tasked with the development and realization of next-generation biofuels produced from non-food crops. Currently, she is the Director of Plant Systems Biology and Deputy Vice-President of the Feedstocks Division, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of scientists exploring approaches to improving plant biomass for the production of biofuels and bioproducts.
(CS-25-5) Determination of a Subcellular Metabolic Network Map for Sorghum bicolor
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
2:05 PM – 2:25 PM EDT