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Jenny Rohn
Jennifer Rohn in 2011
Born
Jennifer Leigh Rohn

1967 (age 56–57)
Stow, Ohio, U.S.
CitizenshipBritish, American
EducationOberlin College (BA)
University of Washington (PhD)
Known forLab lit
Science is Vital campaign[2]
AwardsSuffrage Science award (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsCell biology
InstitutionsLondon Research Institute
University College London
University of Washington
ThesisThe evolution of feline leukemia virus in vivo: A model of understanding viral genetic determinants of pathogenicity (1996)
Doctoral advisorJulie M. Overbaugh[1]
Websitejennyrohn.com Edit this at Wikidata

Jennifer Leigh Rohn (born 1967 in Stow, Ohio[3]) is a British-American scientist and novelist.[4][5] She is a cell biologist at University College London,[6] editor of the webzine LabLit.com[7][8] and founder of the Science is Vital organization that campaigns against cuts to the public funding of science in the United Kingdom.[2][9][10][11][12]

Education

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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).[1]

Career and research

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After postdoctoral research at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute (now incorporated into the Francis Crick Institute) studying apoptosis and cancer with Gerard Evan, Rohn moved to the Netherlands to lead a research group at the biotech start-up company, Leadd BV. After moving into scientific publishing for a few years, Rohn joined University College London in 2007, setting up her own group in the Centre for Nephrology at University College London in 2015.[13]

Rohn's initial research interest was in virology.[14][15] Over the following 15 years Rohn studied apoptosis and the shape of cells.[16][17][18][19] Rohn's current research interests include study of urinary tract infections.[20] Rohn works with engineers to put antibiotics within core-shell capsules to treat persistent urinary tract infections.[21] Rohn grows bladder epithelia in culture to test new treatments for urinary tract infections.[22]

Publications

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Rohn's first novel, Experimental Heart, was published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) in 2008.[23] This is written in the lab lit genre, which she is well known for championing,[7] and represents a departure for CSHLP, which had previously only published scientific non-fiction.[24] Her second novel, The Honest Look,[25] was also published by CSHLP in November 2010.[26][27] Her third novel, Cat Zero, was published by Bitingduck Press in June 2018. Rohn has also had short fiction,[7][24][26][28] news and opinion published in Nature[29][30][31][32][33] and The Guardian[34]

Awards and honours

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In 2011, Rohn won the inaugural Research Fortnight "Achiever of the Year" award,[35] and received the Society for Experimental Biology's President's Medal in the Education and Public Affairs Section.[36] She won the Suffrage Science award in 2013.

References

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  1. ^ a b Rohn, Jennifer (1996). The evolution of feline leukemia virus in vivo: A model of understanding viral genetic determinants of pathogenicity (PhD thesis). University of Washington. OCLC 36895650. ProQuest 304324120.
  2. ^ a b "Science is Vital | No more Dr Nice Guy!". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  3. ^ Bio by author
  4. ^ Jennifer Rohn publications from Europe PubMed Central
  5. ^ Jennifer Rohn on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ Matthews, H. K.; Delabre, U.; Rohn, J. L.; Guck, J.; Kunda, P.; Baum, B. (2012). "Changes in Ect2 Localization Couple Actomyosin-Dependent Cell Shape Changes to Mitotic Progression". Developmental Cell. 23 (2): 371–383. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2012.06.003. PMC 3763371. PMID 22898780.
  7. ^ a b c "Abstractions". Nature. 451 (7175): ix. 10 January 2008. Bibcode:2008Natur.451R...9.. doi:10.1038/7175ixb.
  8. ^ "LabLit.com - the culture of science in fiction & fact". Retrieved 18 December 2012.
  9. ^ Milton, Joseph (5 October 2010). "How vital is science?". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.512.
  10. ^ LabLit.com, "a forum for all topics related to the culture of science in fiction and fact", webzine edited by Rohn
  11. ^ Mind the Gap, Rohn's blog on Occam's Typewriter
  12. ^ Science: It beats living in caves, 2010 article by Rohn at The Guardian
  13. ^ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  14. ^ Rohn, JL; Linenberger, ML; Hoover, EA; Overbaugh, J (April 1994). "Evolution of feline leukemia virus variant genomes with insertions, deletions, and defective envelope genes in infected cats with tumors". Journal of Virology. 68 (4): 2458–67. doi:10.1128/JVI.68.4.2458-2467.1994. PMC 236723. PMID 8139030.
  15. ^ Rohn, Jennifer L.; Overbaugh, Julie (January 1995). "In vivo selection of long terminal repeat alterations in feline leukemia virus-induced thymic lymphomas". Virology. 206 (1): 661–665. doi:10.1016/S0042-6822(95)80085-9. PMID 7831823.
  16. ^ Rohn, Jennifer L; Hueber, Anne-Odile; McCarthy, Nicola J; Lyon, Debbie; Navarro, Paloma; Burgering, Boudewijn M Th; Evan, Gerard I (7 December 1998). "The opposing roles of the Akt and c-Myc signalling pathways in survival from CD95-mediated apoptosis". Oncogene. 17 (22): 2811–2818. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1202393. PMID 9879987.
  17. ^ Rohn, Jennifer L.; Zhang, Ying-Hui; Aalbers, Remco I. J. M.; Otto, Norbert; den Hertog, Jeroen; Henriquez, Niek V.; van de Velde, Cornelis J. H.; Kuppen, Peter J. K.; Mumberg, Dominik; Donner, Peter; Noteborn, Mathieu H. M. (27 December 2002). "A Tumor-specific Kinase Activity Regulates the Viral Death Protein Apoptin". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277 (52): 50820–50827. doi:10.1074/jbc.M208557200. PMID 12393903.
  18. ^ Kunda, Patricia; Rohn, Jennifer L.; Baum, Buzz (June 2008). "Cell Shape: Taking the Heat". Current Biology. 18 (11): R470–R472. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2008.04.032. PMID 18522817. S2CID 17979085.
  19. ^ Rohn, J. L.; Baum, B. (4 January 2010). "Actin and cellular architecture at a glance". Journal of Cell Science. 123 (2): 155–158. doi:10.1242/jcs.049759. PMID 20048336.
  20. ^ Khasriya, R.; Sathiananthamoorthy, S.; Ismail, S.; Kelsey, M.; Wilson, M.; Rohn, J. L.; Malone-Lee, J. (17 April 2013). "Spectrum of Bacterial Colonization Associated with Urothelial Cells from Patients with Chronic Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms". Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51 (7): 2054–2062. doi:10.1128/JCM.03314-12. PMC 3697662. PMID 23596238.
  21. ^ Labbaf, S.; Horsley, H.; Chang, M.-W.; Stride, E.; Malone-Lee, J.; Edirisinghe, M.; Rohn, J. L. (25 September 2013). "An encapsulated drug delivery system for recalcitrant urinary tract infection". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 10 (89): 20130747. doi:10.1098/rsif.2013.0747. PMC 3808553. PMID 24068180.
  22. ^ Horsley, Harry; Dharmasena, Dhanuson; Malone-Lee, James; Rohn, Jennifer L. (19 January 2018). "A urine-dependent human urothelial organoid offers a potential alternative to rodent models of infection". Scientific Reports. 8 (1): 1238. Bibcode:2018NatSR...8.1238H. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19690-7. PMC 5775255. PMID 29352171.
  23. ^ Jennifer L. Rohn (2008). Experimental Heart: A Novel. Plainview, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. ISBN 978-0-87969-876-8.[page needed]
  24. ^ a b Herndon, Lynne (December 2008). "Splendor in the Lab". Cell. 135 (7): 1157. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2008.12.010. S2CID 43654935.
  25. ^ Jennifer L. Rohn (2010). The Honest Look. Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. ISBN 978-1-936113-11-8.[page needed]
  26. ^ a b Rohn, Jennifer (3 June 2010). "More lab in the library". Nature. 465 (7298): 552. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..552R. doi:10.1038/465552a.
  27. ^ Herndon, Lynne (December 2010). "Science, Meet Poetry". Cell. 143 (7): 1039. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.12.006. S2CID 32285199.
  28. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (31 July 2008). "The pair-bond imperative". Nature. 454 (7204): 666. Bibcode:2008Natur.454..666R. doi:10.1038/454666a.
  29. ^ Jennifer Rohn publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  30. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (3 March 2011). "Give postdocs a career, not empty promises". Nature. 471 (7336): 7. Bibcode:2011Natur.471....7R. doi:10.1038/471007a. PMID 21368781.
  31. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (9 December 2010). "Women scientists must speak out". Nature. 468 (7325): 733. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..733R. doi:10.1038/468733a. PMID 21150949.
  32. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (19 April 2010). "Brewing up identity with Billy Bragg". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.191.
  33. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (11 November 2010). "Q&A: On facts and fiction". Nature. 468 (7321): 172. Bibcode:2010Natur.468..172R. doi:10.1038/468172a.
  34. ^ Rohn, Jennifer (4 February 2020). "Coronavirus is a deadly test: did the world learn the lessons of Sars?". The Guardian.
  35. ^ Miriam, Frankel (16 November 2011). "Science is Vital award-winner refocuses campaign on careers". ResearchResearch.com. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
  36. ^ http://www.sebiology.org/meetings/Past_Meetings/Glasgow_2011/pres-meds.html Presidents Medallists 2011
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