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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The Chen Lab @ EMBL Rome (current population: 1) is hiring! Looking for an experimental Lab Manager w/ a PhD and experience in molecular bio and mouse-based neuro research. Apply if you like: mouse behaviors, high-throughput sequencing, good coffee & ancient history tinyurl.com/48h66vfh

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Lab Manager

The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the world’s leading life science research organizations. With sites across Europe, EMBL fosters an international, collaborative, and inclusiv...

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

So excited to announce that I will be starting the Chen Lab at EMBL Rome in September 2026 🎉 ! The Chen Lab will investigate the genetics + evolution of innate behavior w/ high-throughput sequencing + computational methods across diverse rodent species. Stay tuned for upcoming opportunities...

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

cool study showing across all placental mammals, recombination is suppressed around the x inactivation center — a region of the genome that always make me think of the severance quote, “the work is mysterious and important”

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

When I was interviewing for grad school (2011), the “missing heritability question” was THE burning question in genomics 1/

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Kelsey Tyssowski @kelseytea.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🧠🌟🐭 Excited to share some of my postdoc work on the evolution of dexterity! We compared deer mice evolved in forest vs prairie habitats. We found that forest mice have: (1) more corticospinal neurons (CSNs) (2) better hand dexterity (3) more dexterous climbing, which is linked to CSN number🧵

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I, too, can become aggressive toward my pups (children) when hungry #hangrymom #cantgentleparentonanemptystomach

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Nick Jourjine @nickjourjine.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Anyone out there know of a good public benchmark/dataset for rodent vocalizations? Something intended for benchmarking ML models (detection, classification, etc) would be ideal, eg like AnuraSet but mice/rats/etc 🐀🐀🐀 #bioacoustics #prattle💬 #neuroskyence

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

A nice, layperson writeup of my latest work, which is now out on eLife! TLDR: Using snRNA-seq, we find cell type abundance differences and sex-biased gene expression differences that may explain innate differences in mating + parenting behavior elifesciences.org/digests/1031...

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The parenting styles of deer mice

Single-nuclei RNA-sequencing sheds new light on how two closely related species of deer behave differently when mating and caring for young.

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

UGA asking the hard hitting questions on their faculty applications

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Excited to share that my preprint about cellular differences in the hypothalamic preoptic region across behaviorally divergent deer mice is now reviewed on eLife! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Cellular evolution of the hypothalamic preoptic area of behaviorally divergent deer mice

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Jenny Chen @jennychen.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hello, world! Always exciting to join a new platform early enough to actually get my name as my handle 💃

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