Jenn Brophy

Jenn is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering. Her lab develops technologies that enable the genetic engineering of plants and their associated microbes to uncover mechanisms of environmental stress resilience and to drive innovation in agriculture for a sustainable future. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley in 2009 and PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT in 2016. During her PhD, developed tools for engineering non-model bacteria. She got into plants as a postdoc, where she worked with José Dinneny at Stanford to engineer spatial patterns of gene expression across plant tissues using synthetic genetic circuits.