Jenny Link

Jenny Link is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Whittier College, which is a private liberal arts college in the county of Los Angeles, California. Prior to joining Whittier, she completed her Ph.D. and her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her dissertation research focused on genetic causes of sex differences in obesity and metabolic disorders, while her postdoctoral research centered on genetic regulation of bile acids and gallbladder disease. Her postdoctoral fellowship was funded by the NIH’s Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA), which aims to train postdocs in research and teaching careers and aims to address equity gaps in biomedical research. Jenny’s fellowship experiences have launched her on a path to make biology accessible to underrepresented groups by changing how biology is taught in the college classroom.

Jenny enjoys learning new skills, both professional and personal. She recently learned to crochet and just like teaching, she finds there is always room for improvement. When she am not transforming college education, she spends time transforming yarn into toys for her daughter.