Hannah De Jong

  • Program Years: 2014-2018
  • Academic Institution: Stanford University
  • Field of Study: Genetics
  • Academic Advisor: Euan Ashley
  • Practicum(s):
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2016)
  • Degree(s):
    PhD, Genetics, Stanford University
    BS Biological Sciences, Biometry and Statistics, Cornell University

Current Status

  • Status: Scientist, Functional Genomics at Maze Therapeutics
  • Research Area: Genetics

Publications

De Jong HN*, Dewey F*, Cordero P, Huang Y, Victorio R, Kirillova A, Madhvani R, Seo K,
Werdich A, Lan F, Orcholski M, Liu RW, Erbilgin A, Wheeler M, Chen R, Pan S, Kim Y, Bommakanti K, Marcou C, Bos JM, Haddad F, Ackerman M, Vasan R, MacRae C, Wu J, Perez VD, Snyder M, Parikh VN, Ashley EA (2022). Wnt signaling interactor WTIP underlies novel mechanism for cardiac hypertrophy. Circulation: Genomics and Precision Medicine.

Krysov V, Wilson R, Ten N, Youlton N, De Jong HN, Sutton S, Huang Y, Reuter C, Grove M,
Wheeler M, Ashley EA, Parikh VN (2022). Regional variation in cardiovascular genes enables a tractable genome editing strategy. medRxiv.

Welter, DK, Ruaud A, Henseler ZM, De Jong HN, de Groot PV, Michaux J, Gormezano L,
Waters JL, Youngblut ND, Ley RE (2021). Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts. Msystems.

Gorzynski JE*, De Jong HN*, Amar D, Hughes CR, Ioannidis A, Bierman R, Liu D, Tanigawa
Y, Kistler A, Kamm J, Kim J (2020). High-throughput SARS-CoV-2 and host genome sequencing from single nasopharyngeal swabs. medRxiv.

Casteel CL, Yang C, Nanduri AC, De Jong HN, Whitham SA, Jander GJ (2014). The NIa-
Pro Protein of Turnip mosaic virus Improves Growth and Reproduction of its Aphid Vector, Myzus persicae (Green Peach Aphid). The Plant Journal.

Awards

Keystone Symposia Scholarship, Keystone: Engineering the Genome, 2020
Summa cum laude with distinction in research, Cornell University, 2014
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2014
Dean's Award for Academic Excellence in a Double Major, Cornell University CALS, 2014
American Society for Plant Biologists- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2012