Education

Honors & Awards

• Teacher Commencement Speaker — Elected by ORCA’s 2021 Seniors to give the Teacher Commencement Address.

• Moth GrandSlam Champion — invite-only, short-story-telling competition winner (October 2018).

• Moth StorySlam Champion — Open mic short-story-telling competition winner (June 2018).

• Student Commencement Speaker — Graduate student speaker for the 2011 OHSU School of Medicine Hooding Ceremony.

• 2010 Trainee of the Year – Monetary award for second place for the best graduate-student talk at the 2010 OHSU Heart Research Center Retreat.

• Best Oral Presentation at the NW Developmental Biology Conference — Monetary award for second place for the best graduate-student talk at the 2010 Northwest Regional Developmental Biology Conference.

• Best Poster – Monetary award for the best poster (tied first place) at OHSU’s annual Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences retreat.

• School of Medicine Alliance Award – Competitive award sponsored by the School of Medicine Alliance Group for “outstanding academic accomplishment and leadership qualities, as well as current and potential contributions to the community and society.”

• Global Service Award – Award presented by the OHSU Student Council for exceptional work in education, public or clinical service at an international level.

• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Academic Publications

• Maslen CL, Babcock D, Redig JK, Kapeli K, Akkari YM, Olson SB. CRELD2: Gene mapping, alternate splicing, and comparative genomic identification of the promoter region. Gene 382, 111-20 (2006). DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.06.016

• Redig JK, and Adler E. Doing the dirty work: progress in the search for a reliable protocol for cardiomyogenesis. Stem Cell Research & Therapy 2, 35 (2011). DOI: 10.1186/scrt76

• Li H, Cherry S, Klinedinst D, DeLeon V, Redig J, Reshey B, Chin MT, Sherman SL, Maslen CL, Reeves RH. Genetic Modifiers Predisposing to Congenital Heart Disease in the Sensitized Down Syndrome Population. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics 5, 301–8 (2012). DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.111.960872

• Redig JK, Fouad GT, Babcock D, Reshey B, Feingold E, Reeves RH, Maslen CL. Allelic Interaction between CRELD1 and VEGFA in the Pathogenesis of Cardiac Atrioventricular Septal Defects. AIMS Genetics 1, 1-19 (2014). DOI: 10.3934/genet.2014.1.1#sthash.jksuJTeC.dpuf

Bitesize Bio Publications

• Keeping ’em Alive! Incubators and Chambers for Live-Cell Imaging

• Just What Do All These Additives Do?

• Let Me Introduce You to ELISA…No, Not the Girl…The Assay.

• “Where the Hell Did My Signal Go?” AKA The Problems (and Uses) of ‘Photobleaching’ in Microscopy and Imaging.

• Welcome to the Dark Side…Dark Field Microscopy That Is!

• What is PCR? – The Beginner’s Guide.

• Advanced Sectioning Techniques: How to Section Difficult Tissues.

• Immunohistochemistry Basics: Blocking Non-Specific Staining.

• How to Fix Isolated and In Situ Primary Cells.

• How to Fix Suspension Cells for Microscopy and Imaging.

• Cell and Tissue Fixation 101- Top Tips For Protocol Optimization.

• Avoid These Pitfalls: Seven (Not So Deadly) Histology Sins.

Professional Work Experience

• Public Health CTE Teacher at Henrietta Lacks High School in Vancouver, WA. Henrietta Lack is a public bioscience magnet school.

• Master Medical Science CTE Teacher at Oregon Charter Academy, an Oregon public virtual charter school.

• AP Biology Instructor at Excel Test Prep in Fremont, CA

• Oral Communications Tutor at Stanford University

• Freelance Writer and Editor at BitesizeBio

• Ghostwriter

• Essentials of Molecular and Medical Genetics Teacher at OHSU

• Saturday Academy Instructor

• Equity Research Program Participant

• HHMI EXROP Summer Research Program Mentor

Fellowships

Developmental Biology Training Program, Predoctoral Fellowship

This competitive training grant was funded through an NIH Institutional National Research Service Award. Fellowship included schooling in molecular and cellular aspects of development through coursework and regional conferences.

Program in Systems Biology of Developmental Biology, Predoctoral Fellowship

This competitive year-long fellowship was funded by the National Research Service Award Institutional Predoctoral Training Program in Systems Biology of Developmental Biology.

Long-Term OSLER TL1, Predoctoral Fellowship

Oregon Students Learn and Experience Research (OSLER) TL1 fellowship is a competitive year-long fellowship awarded by the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute funded by NIH and National Center for Research Resources.

Tartar Trust Research Fellowship

This competitive award is given to individuals, in the School of Medicine at OHSU, to support their research-career development.

In her summers, Jennifer enjoys camping, clamming, rock hounding, and gardening. She does these things with her husband, their five children, and a menagerie of pets. She has two dogs, an Australian Shepard named “Turtle”, who is anything but slow; and a little brown Heinz-57 mutt named “Little Dog”. She also has two bunnies, “Terrified-Rex”, or “T-Rex” for short; and “Try-carrot-tops”. She shares her home office with a bumble bee ball python named “Kaa”.

In the winter, you can find her under a heated blanket, knitting, drawing, or reading. Although she finds herself consuming more audiobooks than paper books these days. If you want to learn more about her, her educational philosophy, or curricula please explore this site.

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