Sidu Jena

I am on the job market! My lab will use high-throughput screens, genomics, quantitative imaging, optogenetics and protein design to decode and design resilient chromatin: adaptations in proteins and DNA that allow for organismal survival in Earth’s harshest environments. These adaptations are key to designing genomes that let cells thrive under stress, enabling resiliency in cell therapies, regenerative medicine, and agriculture.

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology/the Broad Institute, where I am fortunate to be advised by Jason Buenrostro. Prior to my postdoc, I completed my PhD at Princeton with the generous support of an NIH F31 fellowship and the Francis Boyer Fellowship in the Life Sciences, where I worked under the mentorship of Jared Toettcher. I earned my BA at Harvard where I majored in chemistry, physics, and mathematics, and worked with Jack Szostak and Martin Karplus.