Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology. She teaches the core laboratory course for junior MOL majors, as well as the department’s introductory non-majors course, MOL101. She is also an instructor in MOL152, the FSI/TSI life sciences summer course. She loves getting to know students at each end of the spectrum - students that see molecular biology as their future and students that come in asking “What is DNA?”.
Her journey has been a pretty local one. After completing her Ph.D. at Princeton in 2008 (yes, she is a Princeton graduate alum!), Dr. Schottenfeld-Roames performed her postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania. She then spent three years as a Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College before returning to Princeton in her current role. Dr. Schottenfeld-Roames's research explores the genetic and cell biological requirements to form a branched tubular organ, such as our vascular system. To study this, she uses the fruit fly tracheal system as a model. This work is the basis of her fall research course.
Fun facts: Dr. Schottenfeld-Roames was married at Cloisters Inn Eating Club. You will also often find her having breakfast with junior and senior MOL majors in Whitman throughout the spring semester, so feel free to stop by and say hi. She is always up for an advising meeting over a mid-morning meal!