Assistant Professor, Department of Systems & Computational Biology, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Biography
Jessica Mar is an Assistant Professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Department of Systems and Computational Biology in the Bronx, New York. The focus of the Mar lab is to understand how variability in gene expression contributes to the regulation of cellular phenotypes. Around the topic of variability, her work involves applications in single cell genomics, stem cells, genetics and cancer biology. Jessica Mar received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia and First Class Honors in Statistics in 2002. She got her PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard University in 2008. Previously she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, and a visiting scientist at the European Bioinformatics Institute in the UK. Since July 2016, Dr. Mar holds a joint appointment with the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland, Australia as a Group Leader.