Jenna Haines
About Jenna Haines
Jenna Haines is a scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with extensive experience in genomics, CRISPR/Cas9, and molecular biology.
Current Position at Bristol Myers Squibb
Jenna Haines is currently working at Bristol Myers Squibb as a Scientist. She is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Her role involves applying her extensive expertise in genomics sequencing assays and CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screens to advance scientific research.
Previous Role at Octant
From 2020 to 2021, Jenna Haines served as the Director of Octant's Synthetic Biology Apprenticeship (SBA) in Emeryville, California. During her 10-month tenure, she developed transcriptional reporters and cell lines for massively multiplexed assays to measure GPCR activity and signaling bias.
Research at University of California, Berkeley
Jenna Haines was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, from 2015 to 2020. Under the mentorship of Mike Eisen, she completed her PhD focusing on how chromatin regulates enhancer-mediated transcription in early Drosophila melanogaster embryos. Additionally, she developed a high-throughput CRISPR/Cas9 screening method to generate thousands of allelic variants in vivo for identifying sequences that determine enhancer function.
Educational Background
Jenna Haines holds a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, earned between 2015 and 2020. She also obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology from Northeastern University, where she studied from 2009 to 2014.
Early Career and Research Experience
Jenna Haines has accumulated a wealth of research experience from various prestigious institutions early in her career. She worked as a Research Associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (2014-2015) and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2013-2014). She also held positions at Sanofi Genzyme, Cornell University and Boyce Thomas Institute, Cambridge Water Department, and Northeastern University, where she gained valuable hands-on experience in molecular biology and genetic research.
Skills and Expertise
Jenna Haines is highly skilled in various genomics sequencing assays such as RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, Chip-seq, and Hi-C. Her expertise includes CRISPR/Cas9 genetic screens, human genetics, next-generation sequencing (NGS), high throughput image analysis, mammalian tissue culture, and molecular biology. These skills underscore her strong background and capability in advanced scientific research techniques.