Jennifer Heemstra
Washington University in St Louis
Biography
Jennifer Heemstra was born in the United States in 1978. She received her BS in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ from University of California, Irvine (2000) and her PhD in ÀË»¨Ö±²¥ from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005). After a short time in industry, she returned to academia as a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. She began her independent career at the University of Utah in 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2016. In 2017, she moved with her lab to Emory University.
Research in her lab is focused on harnessing the molecular recognition and self-assembly properties of nucleic acids for applications in biosensing and bioimaging.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, RSC Chemical Biology
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