Dr. Jennifer Hurley received her B.S. from Juniata College in 2004 in molecular biology. She earned her Ph.D. at Rutgers/UMDNJ with Drs. Nancy Woychik and Masayori Inouye, studying the function of Toxin-Antitoxin modules in bacteria. Jennifer worked with Drs. Jay Dunlap and Jennifer Loros during her postdoctoral fellowship, investigating the relationship between the core proteins and the output of the circadian clock in Neurospora. Jennifer's research focuses both on the fundamental mechanisms as well as the output of the circadian clock.