Jessica J. Connelly

Education

Dr. Jessica Connelly earned her Bachelor's of Science (BS) in Chemistry, with a focus in Biochemistry, at Stockton College of New Jersey. In 1999, she went on to start her PhD in Genetics at State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she studied under a yeast epigeneticist, Dr. Rolf Sternglanz. In Sternglanz's lab, Connelly's thesis focused on chromatin compaction regulation transcription in histone code. After completing her PhD in 2004, she earned her postdoctoral degree at Duke University's Center for Human Genetics, during which time she focused on human genetics and genomics. Her mentors during her Postdoctoral degree at Duke University were statistical geneticist Dr. Elizabeth Hauser, and human genomicist Dr. Simon Gregory.