Dr. Jenn Brophy

Biography

Jenn Brophy is an Assistant Professor in Bioengineering at Stanford University. Her research focuses on developing technologies that enable genetic engineering of plants and their associated microbes to uncover mechanisms related to environmental stress resilience, thereby driving innovation for a sustainable future in agriculture. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009 and completed her Ph.D. in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, where she developed tools for engineering non-model bacteria. After her Ph.D., she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University under José Dinneny, where she engineered spatial patterns of gene expression in plant tissues using synthetic genetic circuits.

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