Jenna Rode received her Bachelor’s degree in Molecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley in 2023, working in the lab of Professor Gary Karpen on the role of heterochromatin binding proteins in nuclear organization. Jenna joined the Corn lab in September 2024. She is currently working on her Master’s thesis, focusing on discovering novel mechanisms of DNA-protein crosslink degradation.
Genome editing therapies often rely on viral delivery systems such as adeno-associated viruses (AAVs), which have limited cargo capacity. Although RNA-guided...
A highlight of the summer scientific calendar, the SwissPR Symposium on Genome and Transcriptome Engineering, took place on June 30, 2026, in Basel. Co-organized...
From June 8–10, 2026, members of the Corn Lab attended the 14th D-BIOL Symposium in Davos. This biennial ETH Zurich event brought together nearly 500 students,...
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What an exciting addition to the team Jenna is! Inspiring, intelligent, and a breakthrough thinker. Excited to see how she can continue to help the Corn Lab make cutting edge discoveries!