Residence England Doctoral advisor Julie M. Overbaugh Role Novelist Fields Cell biology | Citizenship British, American Name Jennifer Rohn Education Oberlin College | |
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Institutions London Research Institute
University College London
University of Washington
Oberlin College Alma mater University of Washington Thesis The evolution of feline leukemia virus in vivo: A model of understanding viral genetic determinants of pathogenicity (1996) Books The Honest Look, Experimental Heart | ||
Jennifer Leigh Rohn (born 1967 in Stow, Ohio) is a British-American scientist and novelist. She is a cell biologist at University College London, editor of the webzine LabLit.com and founder of the Science is Vital organization that campaigns against cuts to the public funding of science in the United Kingdom.
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Education
Rohn graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1990. Following this Rohn was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1996 from the University of Washington for work on Feline Leukemia Virus (FeLV).
Publications
Rohn's first novel, Experimental Heart, was published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) in 2008. This is written in the lab lit genre, which she is well known for championing, and represents a departure for CSHLP, which had previously only published scientific non-fiction. Her second novel, The Honest Look, was also published by CSHLP in November 2010. Rohn has also had short fiction, news and opinion published in Nature.
Awards
In 2011, Rohn won the inaugural Research Fortnight "Achiever of the Year" award, and received the Society for Experimental Biology's President's Medal in the Education and Public Affairs Section.