Professor
University of Washington
Jennifer Nemhauser is a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington and an HHMI Faculty Scholar. She is fascinated by the premise that regulation of a small number of cellular functions—division, growth, differentiation, communication, death—makes multicellular life possible. Her long-term objective is to use plant signaling pathways to program each of these core functions in a synthetic context and then to use this information to rationally engineer crops. In the process, she hopes to learn a great deal about the principles shaping cell signaling networks and how evolution has re-wired these programs.