Jennifer McCarthy Taylor, Ph.D.
Jenny joined the lab in summer of 2023 after completing a PhD at UC Berkeley in the lab of Nipam Patel. Her focus was the role that Hox genes played in the body patterning and limb identity of crustaceans. Before starting in the Patel lab, she completed a master's at Cal Poly Pomona in the lab of Angel Valdes, where she worked on taxonomic revisions of sacoglossan sea slugs. Now as a Postdoc in the Albertin lab, she will combine her passion for body patterning and molluscan diversity by working on the role of Hox genes in body patterning in cephalopods.