Jennifer Graves

Jennifer Graves is an evolutionary geneticist who works on Australian animals, including kangaroos, platypus, Tasmanian devils, emus and dragon lizards. Her group uses their distant relationship to humans to discover how genes, chromosomes and regulatory systems evolved and how they work in all animals, including humans. Jenny received her B Sc and M Sc degrees from Adelaide University, Australia and completed her Ph D in molecular biology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.